Emma Orczy Quotes

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Opportunity
  • Water
  • Sea

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Memory
  • Your
  • Proven

• We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Plant

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.

  

  Outkast

• Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Victory
  • Champagne

• Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

  

  Chris Milk
  • People

• I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

  

  Chris Webber
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Effort

• I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • American
  • Drama
  • Greek

• I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cheer

• The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

  

  Jose Andres
  • History
  • Passion
  • Cooking

• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Power
  • Attitude

• 'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

  

  Lorraine Gary
  • Life
  • Movie

• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Enjoy

• It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Energy
  • Waste
  • Roads

• Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Woods
  • Betrayed
  • Guillotine