Gilbert Highet Quotes

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

Gilbert Highet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 22, 1906 - January 20, 1978

Topics

PowerSoulManEnjoyWealthDuty

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

Jimmy Rushing

LoveBusinessMusicNowWayCarry

Work is no longer challenging.

John Belushi

WorkLongerChallenging

People always say, 'Is it tough getting up at four in the morning?' I'm not terrible with that, but the weird thing for me is that I start to feel like a 3-year-old in need of a nap at about 7:30 at night; and, at 9:30, my head is teetering like that.

Matt Lauer

MorningPeopleMeNightStartTough

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

John Stamos

GirlRomanticTogetherDinnerSong

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

Amy Sedaris

GoodGirlAchievementSchoolYear

The rise of the Tea Party, along with the emergence of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada, Carl Paladino in New York and Ron Paul in Kentucky, is not the first time in American history that voters have responded to hard economic times by supporting angry, unorthodox Senate and gubernatorial candidates.

Robert Dallek

HistoryTimeAngryTeaNew YorkNew

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

Michelle Paver

WritingBookPlanYouYourEven

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

Jason Momoa

LoveGoodTrainingMindDenial

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

WarEffortImpossibleAlcoholWill

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.

Svetlana Alexievich

FreedomRedFindingWayStripesOut

I don't care what anybody else is wearing. I feel like they're all waiting to see what I have on. If you really want to know the truth, that's what I think. They're waiting to see what I'mma do next.

Two Chainz

TruthWaitingThinkCareFeelYou

If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it.

Tobias Lutke

YourselfBelieveDoingYouStopUse

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