Humildes Gracias Quotes & Sayings

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style. — Patrick Ewing

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. — Albert Schweitzer

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn. — Esmeralda Santiago

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty. — Immanuel Kant

I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me. — Winston Churchill

Bereavement in Texas is a time to pull out your best recipes. — Lisa Kleypas

The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel. — Cornel West

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal? — Maynard James Keenan

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love. — Brendan Gleeson

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? — Henry David Thoreau

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life. — Alan Shearer

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job. — James Sinegal

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that's all it is to it. They have no respect for the craft. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I worry that we're losing a certain quality, you know? — James Avery