Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
Gary Bettman -
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
Pat Benatar -
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. Raman -
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi -
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita -
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
Viktor Orban
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
Eddie Bracken -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
Kat Graham -
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan -
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth -
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
Zach LaVine -
If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
Magnus Larsson -
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Herbie Hancock -
Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
Charles de Gaulle -
Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox