Angelus Silesius Quotes

How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

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• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Night
  • Beginning
  • End

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Best

• A sexy shoe is one that men like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Men
  • Sexy
  • Shoe

• I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.

  

  Cam
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Desire

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • People
  • History
  • Learning

• I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Life

• Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

  

  George Allen, Sr.
  • Time
  • Die

• Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Writing
  • May

• I wind about, and in and out, – With here a blossom sailing, – And here and there a lusty trout, – And here and there a grayling.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wind
  • Here
  • Blossom

• You can be hurt only if you love someone. But I don’t love anyone.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Hurt

• How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Grief