Samuel Johnson Quotes
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.Samuel Johnson
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot -
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah -
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Frances Beinecke -
My father was a lawyer.
Pat Robertson -
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
Gary Zukav -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye -
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Val Kilmer -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
Yolanda Adams -
I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
Talia Shire -
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Zoe Tapper -
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
Lapo Elkann -
First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
Bobby Hull -
When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
J. C. Ryle -
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
Alexei Mordashov -
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson