Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2072.
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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
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Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
Source: A Distant Mirror -
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
Source: The Intelligent Investor Ch. 16, Convertible Issues and Warrants, p. 225 -
We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
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We always plan too much and always think too little.
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We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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