Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 6

• You are no better than you should be.

  Francis Beaumont

  Literature, Should, Garters

  Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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• Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Inspirational, Wise, Learning

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• I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

  Tom Petty

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "10 Things That Piss Off Tom Petty". Interview with David Wild, www.rollingstone.com. November 14, 2002.

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• In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

  Christian Slater

  Hard Work, Good Times, Good Christian

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  Tea Leoni

  Feel Good, Acting, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Numbers, Success In Life

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• There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.974, Library of America

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• A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Strong, Opportunity

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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Pleasing Others, Advantage

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Men, Guilt

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Cry, Planets, Liberalism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

  Katharine Kolcaba

  Life, Health, Nursing

  Katharine Kolcaba (2003). “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research”, p.20, Springer Publishing Company

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• Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Practice, Anxiety, Fearless

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• The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

  Maurice Francis Egan

  Art, Book, Reading

  Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”

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• Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Character, Despair

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself”, p.209, S. Andrus

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• You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

  Brian Jordan

  Feel Better, Lines, Want

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• Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

  Chevy Chase

  Hands, People, Lasts

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• I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.

  David Ginola

  Feelings, Training, Razors

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Improvement, Feels

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• I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mean, Thinking, Views

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