The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

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• 'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Sports
  • Playing
  • Speed

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Model
  • For Him

• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Wise

• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Long
  • Wind
  • Sky

• I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • School
  • Fighting

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.so trthen despererux died i n heaven and in peace

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Peace

• And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Face
  • Form
  • Trace

• John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Doubt

• The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time

• If you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveWhat comes after thisMomentary blissConsequence of what you do to me

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House

• No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Life
  • World

• For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I write what gets me off. If I listen to a song and jump around the living room with a broom in my hand, I know that that will trigger the same reaction in other people.

  

  Sully Erna Godsmack
  • Song
  • Jump
  • Reaction

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Universities

• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Suffering
  • Conscience

• I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Present
  • Person

• Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

  

  The Weeknd