(1743 quotes found)
“I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery,”
Christopher Reeve
“Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.”
C. Neil Strait
“Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.”
Lionel Trilling
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be”
Pierre Corneille
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.”
“The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured”
Konrad Adenauer
“I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes in their life,”
Christian Dior
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”
“Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modeling is just an image.”
Cameron Diaz
