Neil Sedaka Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
-
My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
-
Making music is fantastic.
-
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
-
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
-
I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
-
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
-
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
-
I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
-
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
-
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
-
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
-
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
-
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
-
There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
-
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
-
Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
-
I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.
-
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
-
We have never seen more threats against our nation and its citizens than we do today.
-
Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
-
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
-
I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
