Anthony Trollope Quotes

The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Behavior

• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Feeling
  • Humor
  • Perception

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Power

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • World
  • Me
  • Pressure

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  

  Pam Brown
  • School
  • Mother
  • Painting

• It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Earth

• If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Sunshine

• The miracles of Jesus are nevertheless more than individual blessings. They are also symbols and types that reveal the full scope of Jesus' identity as the mighty Jehovah, the Creator, the one who provides for his people, and above all the Christ, who wrought the great Atonement, conquering sin and death. For people in every age Jesus can redeem from sin, change hearts and heal souls, strengthen and empower, and bring about a glorious resurrection, which are the greatest miracles of all.

  

  Eric D. Huntsman
  • Jesus
  • Sin
  • Creator

• The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Exist
  • Property
  • Possession