Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

Topics

GreatMenPeopleAmbitionWant

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Jim Morris

FamilyHomeTimeDayNameThree

Once you establish a diet, you can make exceptions once you're able to balance it out.

Joel Robuchon

BalanceDietYouOutAbleOnce

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

Robert Hass

PoetryAmericanWantTeachHigh

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Amber Valletta

LoveGoodSpiritualEgoSelfish

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

Srikumar Rao

SurviveEnvironmentYouPersonNeed

On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

Trevor Paglen

TimeResponsibilitySpacePictures

I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.

Mickey Cochrane

BackBoyOutFeverGetTerrible

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

PoliticalAmericaFindLittleThings

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

Anton Corbijn

LovePassionStoryThinkYouFind

I've had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn't always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.

Annaleigh Ashford

WorkOpportunityGreatAmazingPride

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Allan Carr

ManFrustrationBallJustVery

It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

Philip J. Kaplan

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