George Santayana Quotes

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

George Santayana

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952

Topics

ManHimNaturalDestroyInstincts

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

Jimmy Fallon

SportsDatingTeamYouChoiceMeet

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

Joe Morton

DoingLongIslandUniversityStarted

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Jessica Simpson

CourageThinkNot KnowingDumbAsk

Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say.

Maxwell

GirlLovedAttentionYouCareerSay

I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.

Amy Purdy

PeopleWantOutAnythingMissWho

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

Tristram Stuart

NumbersAnimalsDeerWildEatFail

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Roger Bannister

RacingAmericaCountryIntroduction

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

MindBrainyFavorsFortunePrepared

I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.

Johnny Flynn

SayingFriendsMoreEveryoneGang

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

Dennis C. Blair

WorldThinkStandAmericanMore

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

Anohni

NatureBeautifulBestWomanMan

I think action, as a genre, is every actor's dream.

Ali Fazal

ActionThinkDreamActorI Think

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