Saint Basil Quotes

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

Saint Basil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: saint
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 330 - 379

Topics

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I think I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment

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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Stephen Sondheim

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Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.

Sri Chinmoy

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Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

Louis Leterrier

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It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

Dennis Banks

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Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

Chelsea Handler

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Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Christian de Duve

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I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.

Brent Spiner

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When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

Anselm Kiefer

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I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

Anthony Holden

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The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

Sylvester Stallone

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We've all forgotten how to be original.

Peter Jackson

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