Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Baltasar Gracian Quote: 'To be at ease is better ...'

Author

Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Spanish
Birthday: January 8, 1601

Related Quotes

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
Edgar Cayce
Tags: You Really Never
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard
Tags: Great Just Who
lago federa dolomites nature lake
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.


Jamie Wyeth
Tags: More Than Being
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
Alphonsus Liguori
Tags: God You Who
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times.
Deepak Chopra
Tags: Like Just Because
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby
Tags: Time Music More
This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
Stevie Wonder
Tags: You Like Think
I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.
Charlotte Arnold
I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
Laura Bush
Tags: Time You About
The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'
Peter Capaldi
Tags: Time History Age
forest trees branch nature summer
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.


Richard Wagner
Tags: Music Who Than
When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.
Neil Patrick Harris
Tags: Good Really Make
I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
Patrick Macnee
Tags: Great Really Than
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'
David S. Goyer
Tags: Good Really Than
There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
Kate Mara
Tags: You People Just
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.
Lizzy Caplan
Tags: Business Cool Out
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal
dunes sea north sea beach sand
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.


Navjot Singh Sidhu