Walter Raleigh Quotes

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
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  • Mother
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• You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • You
  • Australia
  • Everywhere

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • More
  • Far
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• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
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• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Water

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
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• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Know
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• After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Training
  • Inspiration
  • Jewelry

• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Feel Good

• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Famous

• My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Quality
  • Interest
  • Guitar

• I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Secret
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• Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Way
  • Adultery
  • Conventional

• ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Mean

• It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Long
  • Nature