Baltasar Gracian Quotes
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.Baltasar Gracian
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
Narendra Modi -
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao -
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
Ted Koppel -
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
Rachel Cusk
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
Kate Reardon -
I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer -
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono -
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
J. L. Austin -
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.
Hans Christian Andersen -
But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh -
'The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.''The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.''They do.'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
Frances Bean Cobain -
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost -
I will not be back after these messages
Merv Griffin -
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Captain Beefheart -
The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
Didier Sornette -
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
Baltasar Gracian