Frederick the Great Quotes

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick the Great

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• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
  • Find

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Become

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Me
  • Will
  • Consumers

• I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • Done
  • Character

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
  • God
  • Money
  • Energy

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Person
  • Pride
  • Shame

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Career
  • Want
  • Girl

• It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the needed equipment and ready for joint cooperation in arms production with Brazilian specialists. This is an area that is very closely linked to high technology in general. In this respect, we hope to develop closer cooperation between the scientific communities in our two countries.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Interesting
  • Community

• Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Study
  • Criticism
  • Assumption

• Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

  

  Nickolas Muray
  • People
  • Profession
  • Contact

• You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

  

  John Irving
  • People
  • Dumb

• It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

  

  Frederick the Great