Frederic Beigbeder Ideal Quotes & Sayings

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H.L. Mencken

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people. — Morgan Freeman

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing. — Joe Frazier

Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation. — Mikhail Bakunin

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates. — Damien Rice

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think. — Jeannine Garsee

Dream the biggest dream for yourself. Hold the highest vision of life for yourself. — Oprah Winfrey

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses. — William Hazlitt