James McCloughan Quotes
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.James McCloughan
Quotes to Explore
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
T. J. Miller -
Anna Wintour has guided me.
Natalie Massenet -
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary -
Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
Camilla Luddington -
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
Kate Chopin -
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Nanci Griffith
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman -
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler -
I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
Ban Ki-moon -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
Natalia Kills -
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei -
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu -
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. Bradley -
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
Laura Prepon
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley -
I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
Kate Burton -
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman -
Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.
Ina May Gaskin -
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
James McCloughan