Frederick William Faber Quotes

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Bored

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Football
  • Like

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• Many are called but few get up.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Up
  • Motivational
  • Few

• All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Cool
  • Win

• The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Long
  • Smile

• In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Long
  • Small
  • Crazy

• If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • King
  • Talent
  • Existence

• Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Long
  • Friendship