Kenneth Grahame Quotes

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

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• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

  

  Hank Haney
  • High
  • You
  • Idea

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Health
  • Day
  • Stronger

• Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Treat

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altaeDeerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset:Natus homo est.

  

  Ovid
  • Animal

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

  

  Albert Pike
  • God
  • Nature

• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Society
  • Words

• We are one nation and one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. This is the majesty and the meaning of this moment.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Future
  • Rest

• When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Game

• I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Done
  • Character

• I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Positive
  • Growth
  • Prayer

• Leftist reactions are always histrionic.

  

  Dave Sim

• Traditional sales and marketing involves increasing market shares, which means selling as much of your product as you can to as many customers as possible. One-to-one marketing involves driving for a share of customer, which means ensuring that each individual customer who buys your product buys more product, buys only your brand, and is happy using your product instead of another to solve his problem. The true, current value of any one customer is a function of the customer's future purchases, across all the product lines, brands, and services offered by you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Driving

• Throughout history, new arrivals or new competitors have often been regarded as threats, but the reality is that a stronger and more confident China is good for the world.

  

  Javier Solana
  • World
  • History
  • China

• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  

  Kenneth Grahame