Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Water
  • Cool

• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Platform

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Events
  • Europe

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Trying
  • War
  • Autumn

• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • God
  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Business
  • Technology

• When I moved from corporate to consumer banking, I brought a lot of synergy with me.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying to entertain them for two hours. Thankfully, I only think about that right before we go on, and then once we're out there, everything's fine.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Children
  • Truth
  • Faith

• The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Wise