Charles Lamb Quotes

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Hunting

• I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Sports

• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Good
  • Men
  • Genius

• The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Opportunities

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Amendment
  • First Amendment

• If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Care
  • Search

• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Reality
  • Often
  • Self-Love

• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Desire

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Time
  • Men
  • American

• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Universe

• Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World
  • Live
  • Education

• A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

  

  Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Powerful
  • Prayer
  • Daughter

• I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Think
  • Creates

• For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Die