Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658

Topics

GoodDreamsLongYouWillWay

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

MarriageEqualityThinkVotingHands

If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

Jennifer Coolidge

WorkPeopleYouPersonOutThings

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

Robert Guillaume

ThinkingBetterYouLookI CanKnow

What I like best is the challenge of learning something I didn't know how to do, going beyond my comfort level.

Ruth Reichl

LearningChallengeBestComfortKnow

'Beloved' is a book that makes me cry.

Ross Gay

MeBookCryBelovedMakes

Some opponents of GMO labeling claim that disclosing genetically modified ingredients will increase food prices. But every shopper knows food companies routinely change their labels to make new claims and highlight innovations.

Mike Pompeo

ChangeFoodNewWillIngredients

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

Louise Nurding

LoveReadingWayAbsolutely

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

DareDifficultThingsBecause

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

JR

WorkPeopleCareNeverAnything

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Christopher McQuarrie

DogSuccessYouBadHollywoodNever

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

NecessaryConscriptionNecessarily

I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

Sean Bean

PeopleBackWhyTalkIrishBoston

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