Benjamin Cardozo Quotes

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Benjamin Cardozo

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• There is nothing more important in life than love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kind

• The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Force

• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

  

  J. Frank Dobie
  • Life
  • Cowboy

• You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Book

• The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • Training

• Get off me,” Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew’s hands off him in disgust. “I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing it because — I don’t reckon my dad would’ve wanted them to become killers — just for you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dad
  • Hands
  • Killers

• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Life
  • Hours
  • Heroic