Colin Wilson Quotes

Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.

Colin Wilson

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• So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Opportunity
  • Nice
  • Crazy

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Pressure
  • Autonomous

• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Said

• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • You
  • Back
  • Modeling

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Fight
  • Name

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Lips

• I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Courage

• Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Time
  • Tears

• Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Time
  • Great
  • Why

• Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

  

  David Conyers
  • Heart
  • True
  • Science

• I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Stories
  • Anchor

• You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Political
  • You
  • Know

• I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.

  

  Colin Wilson