Frederick Marryat Quotes
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.Frederick Marryat
Quotes to Explore
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking -
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union -
I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
Olympia Dukakis -
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett -
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison -
Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
Dana Rohrabacher
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
Imran Amed -
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson -
My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
Kate Brown -
I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
Oliver Reed -
Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack Obama -
I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
Laura Leighton -
Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
Barack Obama -
Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.
Kage Baker -
The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.
Warren Farrell
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Governor Romney is a good debater.
Jim Talent -
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
John Grant -
You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don’t know what it is. I’ve seen it for years.
Donald Trump -
A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Frederick Marryat