Albert Schweitzer Quotes

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965

Topics

CharacterGreatLightMoving OnMind

The reason I can do things that other people can't is because I'm a single guy and have plenty of time.

Jimmy Savile

TimePeopleI CanReasonSingleGuy

We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn't my real job. My real job was to be an actor. I always knew that and never forgot that.

Jessica St. Clair

JobActorNeverRealAlwaysJust

When I was younger, I could be pretty bitter. I still have moments, but I think I've gotten pretty good at rejection.

Jeremy Sisto

GoodThinkRejectionMomentsPretty

In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.

Joel Courtney

FamilyBackTroubleTalkGetDad

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

Steve Jones

LoveDayYouEvery DaySexCreate

I struggled with my confidence a lot.

Stephanie McMahon

ConfidenceLotStruggled

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

Tom Shales

LifeFamilyBirthdayFatherMother

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

Tom Ford

WorkLoveMoneyMeControlProud

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Robert Baden-Powell

DutyTryNeverAlwaysFailNeglect

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Marv Levy

PoetryMeReadingFirstStarted

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph Chamberlain

PoliticsLookingBeyondNextUse

I live the life I want to lead.

Christie Hefner

LifeLiveWantLead

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