Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.Alfred Russel Wallace
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
Viggo Mortensen -
I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
Rachel Ward -
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
Radhanath Swami -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
Jackson Rathbone
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
Yair Lapid -
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi -
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
Bayard Taylor -
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Harold E. Varmus -
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper -
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman Rushdie -
I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Garry Trudeau
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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
Donna Shalala -
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity.
Alphonsus Liguori -
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Sam Waterston -
Threats mean nothing to me.
Dean Ambrose -
'There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men ... I didn't mean it in a sexual sense ... I was just too dirty to clean my act up.'.
Charlotte Rampling -
Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.
Alfred Russel Wallace