Bernard Cornwell Quotes

'I assume I'm expendable, sir.' 'You're a soldier, aren't you? Of course you're expendable!' Sharpe was still smiling. He was a soldier, and a lady needed recuing, and was that not what soldiers throughout history had done?

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Important
  • Soul

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Everyone

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • You
  • Audience

• You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Great
  • Home
  • Play

• I think I, and the audience, would enjoy a kissing scene with me and Rihanna. That would've been cool for me to see, rehearse, practice, and all that. Me and Rihanna.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Cool
  • Practice

• In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Business

• 'I assume I'm expendable, sir.' 'You're a soldier, aren't you? Of course you're expendable!' Sharpe was still smiling. He was a soldier, and a lady needed recuing, and was that not what soldiers throughout history had done?

  

  Bernard Cornwell
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  • History
  • Soldier