David Gemmell Quotes

A man must know his limitations.

David Gemmell

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• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Inspired

• We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• When you have to work, work with a smile.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Work
  • You
  • Smile

• I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Bad
  • Still
  • Anymore

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Family
  • Father
  • Football

• Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Success
  • Service
  • Others

• The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • War
  • America
  • Never

• When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Brother
  • Stupid
  • Silly

• As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Curiosity
  • Subjects
  • Surprised

• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Political
  • Ugly

• It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse....

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Spiritual
  • Ironic

• 'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna

  

  Agatha Christie
  • School
  • Education
  • Latin

• If you can't handle some of the basic stuff that's become a problem in the workforce today, then you don't belong in the workforce.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Today

• Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • People

• Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Agitation

• No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Good
  • Art
  • Together

• A man must know his limitations.

  

  David Gemmell