Gocciole Wild Quotes & Sayings

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery. — Orison Swett Marden

Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression. — Jane Smiley

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor. — George W. Bush

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity. — Hedi Slimane

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff — John Steinbeck

Ruby once told Margaret that Ben was an accident, but it wasn't true. The house just felt empty without a baby in it. Good God, why do women have such feelings: and worse, having them, why do they then act upon them? — Fay Weldon

You were born with the right to be happy. You were born with the right to love, to enjoy and to share your love. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. Don't resist life passing through you, because that is God passing through you. Just your existence proves the existence of God. Your existence proves the existence of life and energy. — Miguel Ruiz

Every thing in your hand if you bi lave
on God — William Shakespeare

Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different viewpoints, by making present to my mind the standpoints of those who are absent; that is, I represent them. ... The more people's standpoints I have present in my mind while I am pondering a given issue, and the better I can imagine how I would feel and think if I were in their place, the stronger will be my capacity for representative thinking and the more valid my final conclusions, my opinion. — Hannah Arendt

Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing. — Ray Charles

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller

I look at my job as looking at the world from points of view that are different from mine - sometimes radically different from mine. — Viggo Mortensen

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does. — Melissa De Sousa

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. — William Zinsser

There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. — Herman Melville