Albert Einstein Quotes

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Albert Einstein

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• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Charity
  • Big

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • Find
  • Gone

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Life
  • Words

• When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • God
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten path.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Weird
  • Path

• We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.

  

  Jim Brown
  • American
  • Memories

• My life was based around the Indy 500 from when I was a child, unlike say Michael’s or the foreign drivers.

  

  Al Unser, Jr.
  • Life
  • Based
  • Indy

• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Bitter
  • Disappointment