Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PatiencePowerWillHimWithinUp

The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.

Jimmy Smits

AmericanJulyConcertLikeMany

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Joanna Lumley

LifeNatureTimeFlowersBirdsYou

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

Jeremy Irons

GreatManPeopleThinkGreat Things

Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

Jennifer Garner

MeBadRealBad GuyGuyGoing

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

Tracy Letts

FearHopeGreatTimeMeSinging

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

Robbie Keane

TogetherI AmHappyWinBelieve

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Robert Winston

PainPeopleDisabilityUnderestimate

It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

Mike Posner

GoodWordsPeopleMeSingingSong

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

Lucinda Williams

GodI AmTryingRightStatementGet

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Bob Marley

LifeNatureMeThinkPoliticalWill

I was a serial monogamist.

Seth Berkley

Serial

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Tim Crouch

TruthArtTheatreSpecialCritics

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