Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers -
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams -
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski -
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
Jack Ma -
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis -
On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
Karrie Webb
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
Larry the Cable Guy -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
Vidya Balan -
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier -
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin -
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
Captain Beefheart
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'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.
David Hume -
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
Oscar Wilde -
I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.
Walt Kelly -
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
Nancy Farmer -
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
William Lloyd Garrison -
Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
Rainer Maria Rilke