Baltasar Gracian Quotes
When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.
Quotes to Explore
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
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When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.
