Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Paul Rand

I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Mason Cooley

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

Mason Cooley

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

Jean Cocteau

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Robbie Amell

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Richard Hofstadter

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Benjamin

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

William S. Burroughs

We should exterminate all rational thought.

Vinnie Jones

Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!

Woodrow Wilson

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

William Shatner

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

William J. Clinton

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks of biological and chemical weapons.