Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

Arthur Daniel Miller
- Think
- Physical
- Heritage
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

Zach Braff
- Think
- Way
- Part
We came up short on offense and that's on me.

Joe Gibbs
- Up
- Tactics
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Oprah Winfrey
- Life
- May
- Always
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

Elia Kazan
- Good
- Directors
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.

Eliot Spitzer
- People
- Financial
- Voice