Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

Topics

PassionRespectEqualityMeEnvy

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

Mattie Stepanek

LiveSadThings HappenNeedHappen

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

John Trudell

WorkWritingResultSaidSayStage

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

Travis Bradberry

PeopleYouNeverSeeAnythingThem

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.

Roger Craig Smith

WorkGreatBestPeopleYouPhone

People used to talk to me about that and say, 'Rom doesn't play with passion.' I do, but I don't show it too much because in my mind, I'm a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.

Romelu Lukaku

PassionPeopleMindMeWinGame

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Mira Sorvino

FriendMotherPartyPlayDollDutch

In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.

Jay Samit

GrowthExperienceCompanyTwoTake

Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on crew for productions until 11 at night, from 12 A.M. to 3 A.M. I was hanging out with jazz musicians.

Joshua Henry

MorningCollegeNightMusiciansJazz

To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

Cherie Lunghi

MorningGreatFitnessWeekBack

There are still places to go, there are still dinners, there are still parties, and you can still get dressed up. That's part of having fun in fashion.

Christian Siriano

FunHaving FunFashionYouDressed

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

Columbus Short

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I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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