Quotes about Contentment, page 54

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Someone asked someone who was about my age: “How are you?”. The answer was: “Fine. If you don't ask for details”.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about contentment

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Quote by Frank Herbert about contentment

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Quote by Frank Herbert about contentment

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about contentment