Walter Scott Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.
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I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
