Antonio Machado Quotes

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • Being
  • Admit

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Infantry

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Believe In Yourself

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Time
  • Help
  • Law

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Truth
  • Faith

• Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Childhood

• Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great
  • Career
  • Superman

• As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Single

• Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Faith

• The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

  

  Antonio Machado
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  • Reality