Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant -
Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
Jack Dangermond -
I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
Narendra Modi -
If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
Tammy Duckworth -
That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
Edgar Ramirez -
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
Hanna Rosin
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One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.
Magnus Larsson -
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
Barry Sheene -
People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.
Auguste Renoir -
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.
Cherrie Moraga -
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
Martha Gellhorn -
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
Aristotle
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No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.
G.A. Henty -
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
Paul Auster -
I listen to John Mayer when I get ready. He's my calmer.
Gigi Hadid -
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Euripides -
I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
Mae West -
...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.
Adolf Hitler