Schmidts Quotes & Sayings

We become what we think about most. — John H. Vandenberg

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back. — Howard Hughes

Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis. — Simon Critchley

Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives. — Augustine Of Hippo

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks. — Graham Nash

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?" The — Barbara W. Tuchman

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. — Mario Batali

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise. — Henry David Thoreau

My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with. — Dorothy Day

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience. — Roger Ebert

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet. — Terry Pratchett