Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.Doris Kearns Goodwin
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams -
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis -
What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
Larry the Cable Guy -
One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
Vidya Balan -
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier
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There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
Utada Hikaru -
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
Captain Beefheart -
Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Camille Paglia -
Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
Quentin Crisp -
Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
C. S. Lewis -
California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
Zooey Deschanel
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
Raha Moharrak -
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius -
The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Wilma Rudolph -
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Doris Kearns Goodwin