Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Work, Mean

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• I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

  Mark Knopfler

  Thinking, Play, People

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• You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

  Ruben Studdard

  Feel Good, Okay, Feels

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• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Shine Bright

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

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• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, College, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

  George Washington

  Christian, Training, Youth

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

  Thomas Sowell

  Deception, Littles, Way

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

  George Santayana

  Play, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Perception, Life Is, Examining

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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  George Harrison

  Mistake, Self, People

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• 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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• Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

  Benjamin Franklin

  World, Constant

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.397

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• Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Blood, Democracy, Sometimes

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• I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

  Grammar, Emperor, Roman Emperor

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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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• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

  Havelock Ellis

  Struggle, Essence, Together

  Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”

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