Eleonora Duse Quotes

#1. In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching ...

Paul Samuelson

#2. I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

Martina Hingis

#3. I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.

Urijah Faber

#4. I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.

George W. Bush

#5. To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

Amy Chua

#6. Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!

Waylon Jennings

#7. If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

#8. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington

#9. I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

Eleonora Duse

#10. To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Eleonora Duse

#11. The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Eleonora Duse

#12. When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Eleonora Duse

#13. If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Eleonora Duse

#14. The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleonora Duse