Eleonora Duse Quotes

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

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• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Space
  • Thoughts
  • Encouragement

• I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Business
  • Want
  • Israel

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Education
  • Training
  • Roots

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

  

  Zendaya
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Model

• Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Free
  • Culture

• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Art
  • Guy

• I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Only
  • Cure
  • Contempt

• 'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'

  

  Hans Frank
  • Up
  • Today
  • Red

• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Vision

• I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men

• Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Good
  • Job
  • Black

• American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.

  

  Eileen Ford
  • Great
  • Women
  • Job

• As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Children
  • She
  • Earth

• When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

  

  Eleonora Duse
  • Regret