David Gemmell Quotes

'I don't understand how any man would wish to pursue such a away of life.Causing pain, being hurt, risking death - and for what? so that a crowd of fat-bellied merchants can see blood flow.'

David Gemmell

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• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Really
  • Have

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Night
  • Used
  • Owl

• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Intimidates

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dance

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Boy

• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Society
  • Pain

• Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Cinema

• 'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'

  

  L. Frank Baum

• When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

  

  Michael Flatley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Heard

• 'I don't understand how any man would wish to pursue such a away of life.Causing pain, being hurt, risking death - and for what? so that a crowd of fat-bellied merchants can see blood flow.'

  

  David Gemmell
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wish