Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Great
  • Support
  • Going

• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Start
  • Down
  • Eating

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dark

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Without

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Write

• It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Picture

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Opinion
  • Cancer
  • Accept

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • School
  • Science
  • Education

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Person

• Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Thinking
  • Now
  • Fame

• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Work
  • God
  • Quality

• If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Fashion
  • Scripts
  • Gucci

• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Adults

• If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Fool
  • Doctor

• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Die
  • Win
  • Jealousy