Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.Dorothy Dunnett
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
Maggie Q -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
Gary Zukav -
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
Aaron Diehl -
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
Daniel D. Palmer -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer -
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
Sam Kean -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
A true champion can adapt to anything.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
Felix Rohatyn -
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry -
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski -
Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
Gary Bettman -
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai
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My biggest deal is I just want to do my job.
Brock Osweiler -
If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
Garrison Keillor -
Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.
Peter Maurer -
I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
Aaron Stanford -
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
Quintus Curtius Rufus -
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.
Dorothy Dunnett