Eight Quotes - Page 31

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a person’s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Every man at three years old is half his height

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.