David Niven Quotes

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

David Niven

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • Meetings
  • Public Policy

• When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• O ye men, whoever amongst you worshipped Muhammad, let him know that Muhammad is dead, and whoever amongst you worshipped Allah, let him know that Allah is Living, there is no death for Him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Men
  • Death

• Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Save

• As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Husband
  • Slavery

• 'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• The Ramans do everything in threes.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy

• Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • School
  • Money

• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Home

• People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

  

  Max Riemelt
  • People

• Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

  

  Elinor Lipman
  • Words

• We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • World

• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  

  David Niven