Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Daniel Burnham -
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
Edith Widder -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Harold Washington -
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
Ted Allen
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie Chan -
My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.
Lacey Chabert -
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt -
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Aamir Khan -
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
Eckhart Tolle -
Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.
Tupac Shakur -
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
Alfred de Musset -
Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell -
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
David Chalmers -
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
Bethany McLean
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I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.
John Barrasso -
I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.
Louis Gossett, Jr. -
Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
Nancy A. Collins -
I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.
Becki Newton -
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley -
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Wortley Montagu