Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Mary Augusta Ward

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• Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Water
  • Walking
  • Creativity

• With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Real
  • Success
  • Man

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• High expectations are the key to everything.

  

  Sam Walton
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Expectations

• My mom is a sculptress.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mom

• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Good
  • Yourself

• In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • Men
  • Start

• My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • Family
  • Political

• If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• In this country over the last five years pay has doubled, whereas output has slightly fallen. That is totally different from the position with many of our competitors. Pay in those countries has gone up hand in hand with productivity. Consequently, they have the jobs and we have a larger proportion of the unemployment.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Different
  • Country

• I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Trying

• I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Game
  • Attention
  • Basketball

• We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other. ... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

  

  Patti Smith

• Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Expectations
  • Investment
  • Practicable

• So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward