Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.Sabine Baring-Gould
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
Walt Mossberg -
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
Ted Danson -
It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
Balaji Srinivasan -
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
Fan Bingbing
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher -
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie -
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush -
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson -
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
Gary Neville
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky -
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
Olivia Williams -
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang -
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
Daniel Bryan
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
D. H. Lawrence -
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Anton Chekhov -
I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz -
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken -
To me, everything happening inside of us is political.
Marianne Williamson -
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould