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Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Van Wyck Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1886 - May 2, 1963

Topics

Jealousy People Vanity Find True

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!

John C. Reilly

Good Mother Child Brother Baby Know

I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.

John McCain

Believe Think Information Know Will

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

John Sarbanes

Focus Day Job Impossible Think Need

If you are a good actor, then all you have to do is give your best shot every time when you are in front of the camera regardless of who else is around you.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Good Time Best Camera You Actor

It's difficult to have the Africa Cup of Nations during the season because you focus on the league, and then you go to Africa, then straightaway you come back and have to refocus in the league.

Riyad Mahrez

Focus You Back Go Africa Difficult

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

Robin S. Sharma

Business Questions Find Place Matter

It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'

Roman Coppola

People World Hollywood Everyone Sure

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

Mary Roach

Food Environment Salt Important Us

A presidential candidate changing churches is hardly unusual. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Rand Paul have all aligned themselves with different faiths throughout their lives.

Michelle Dean

Different Changing Unusual Candidate

I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

Luke James

Love Music Blues New Jazz Always

Football is very simple for me.

David Silva

Football Simple Me Very

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

Anupam Kher

Medical College Engineering Stand