David Mallet Quotes

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

David Mallet

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• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Health
  • Care

• I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ugly

• I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Real
  • Way
  • Decisions

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Business
  • Today
  • Fear

• And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy

• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Important
  • Character
  • Opinion

• I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Good

• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Time
  • Society

• If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.

  

  Georg Hermes
  • Soul
  • Universe

• You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Up
  • Music
  • Live

• We appreciate all that Corey has done for this organization over the last five years. With the great amount of depth and talent we have along the defensive line, we chose to give Corey and opportunity to sign with another team.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Great
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

  

  David Mallet