Able Quotes - Page 35

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be adorable!

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

I'm just here,existing at the surface of the water,not quite drowning but not quite able to breathe.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Be available for life to happen.