Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

No team works out teamwork.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

The worse I do the more popular I get.

Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong, Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong. And when for once the wide world begins to praise her name Her own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.

A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he'll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It's not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.

I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.

My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.

My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.