Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Farquhar Tupper
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
Baz Luhrmann -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
Tammy Duckworth -
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
Sam Smith
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
C. V. Raman -
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen -
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
Wanda Sykes -
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
Edan Lepucki -
I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
Taylor Sheridan -
People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
Ingmar Bergman
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane -
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
Victoria Justice -
Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.
Becky Lynch -
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts -
The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
Samantha Bond
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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
D. H. Lawrence -
For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
Francis Bacon -
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Saint Augustine -
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
Plato -
If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.
Nirmala Srivastava -
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Farquhar Tupper