Everything Quotes: Inspirations for All Aspects of Life (Page 14)

"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible"

Alexander Chase, Author

"When everything is lonely I can be my best friend"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons"

George Byron, Poet

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character"

Stendhal, Writer

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Ask the young. They know everything"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"From its brilliancy everything is illuminated"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show"

Will Arnett, Actor

"Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions"

Graham Nash, Musician

"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind"

Ayn Rand, Writer

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