Mary Beard Quotes

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

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• We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Need
  • Willing

• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Him

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

• You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Happy
  • Goals
  • Search

• Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Great
  • Creativity

• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Fear
  • Need
  • Anxiety

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, to each,Sooner or later, delicate death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • Death
  • Night

• Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Sex

• The 14 points for quality control apply anywhere, to small organizations as well as to large ones...:

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Small
  • Control
  • Quality

• My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Experience
  • Alone

• I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Time
  • Game

• When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Song
  • Free

• In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.

  

  Lionel Barber
  • American
  • Freedom

• Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Memories
  • Disappointment
  • Forgotten

• Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Funny

• Said Scopas of Thessaly, 'We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Men

• Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

  

  Arj Barker
  • Military
  • Learn
  • Secrets

• I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

  

  Mary Beard