Viertel Quotes & Sayings

...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other. — Jack Viertel

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you. — Leila Sales

Being success is not an easy thing. It need courage, fight, brave, and time. Let them judge. Just show them the result later. Because a wise man said that success is the biggest revenge. — Sheilanda Khoirunnisa

The world is a heartless place but its not always because they dont care. Its sometimes because they don't know what to say or because they simply cannot bear to look into the eyes of someone who is suffering — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! — Rick Riordan

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005] — Nelson Mandela

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have. — Peter Hook

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them. — Henry David Thoreau

A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't. — Josef Skvorecky

The glory of life is strength of existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace. — Jon Krakauer

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept. — Carolyn Maloney

Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. — Gerald Lawson Sittser