I Was Born Quotes

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

I was just born to swing, that's all.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim "Christ is born in Bethlehem!

My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.

Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

He that can work is born to be king of something.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.