Marvin J. Ashton Quotes
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
Marvin J. Ashton
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
Sally Ride
I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
Lady Gaga
It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
Ike Skelton
In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
T. C. Boyle
I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
Evelyn Glennie
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
Deepak Chopra
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
H. G. Bissinger
There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.
Kim Cattrall
You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.
Barack Obama
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
Marvin J. Ashton