Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry A. Kissinger

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

James Nasmyth

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Shimon Peres

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

Billy Barty

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

Bobby Unser

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Aime Cesaire

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Albert Camus

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Baruch Spinoza

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Warren Farrell

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

You weren't born a quitter, and it's your sole responsibility to never turn yourself into one.

Edmond Mbiaka

Prospering and living happily aren't things to wish for; they are abilities that you were already born with.

Edmond Mbiaka

Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

Eric Vance Walton

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Freddie Mercury

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Geoffrey Beene

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

Gregory Cochran