Taught Quotes · Page 84

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

— Epicurus

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It…

— Emerson Fittipaldi

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

— Chelsea Clinton

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Jesus defied all of these rules. He taught in the outer courts of the Temple so women could join the audience.

— Danny Silk

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

— Carolina Herrera

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.

— Veronica Roth

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

— Julia Ward Howe

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero…

— Ryne Sandberg

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a…

— Audrey Hepburn

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my…

— Phil Knight

t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You…

— Diego Sanchez

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make…

— Romare Bearden

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself,…

— Tori Amos

Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for…

— Saddam Hussein

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught…

— Swami Vivekananda

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out…

— Brigham Young

The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and…

— Rosanne Cash

Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving…

— Howard W. Hunter

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own…

— George Washington

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

— Kathleen Turner

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend,…

— Doris Lessing

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma…

— Anonymous

At school they taught me how to respect well yet in the industry they are teaching me how to be disrespectful

— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

— G. Gordon Liddy

I taught you how to cut it, cook it on hot stoves. I taught you how to share em, when fucking with…

— Malice (Clipse

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight…

— Donna Dixon

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

— T Bone Burnett

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

— Tatiana Maslany

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not…

— Cal Thomas

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and…

— Queen Latifah

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

— Ann Patchett

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left…

— William Penn

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what…

— Lyoto Machida

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste…

— Anonymous