Walter Scott Quotes

Where's the coward that would not dareTo fight for such a land?

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• I've got a full life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Got
  • Full

• You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Violence
  • Religion

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Story
  • Working
  • Early

• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Sea

• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Find
  • Thing
  • Keep

• No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.

  

  Karl Jaspers

• I don't ever wanna wake up, looking into someone else's eyes.Another voice calling me baby on the other end of the phone.A new girl putting on her makeup before dinner on Friday night.No, I don't ever wanna know. Oh, oh.No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin' to the radio.Oh, oh. Oh, oh.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Night
  • Girl

• The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Long
  • Power
  • American

• People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Time

• I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I wasn't on. I left my shoes in Chicago so they could put them on the show.

  

  Matthew McGrory
  • Time
  • Done
  • Shoes

• I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Control

• America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Children
  • Family
  • America

• Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

  

  David Mixner
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Commitment

• Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Single
  • Failure
  • Design

• I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.

  

  Joe Hill
  • Die
  • Fighting
  • Coward

• Leaves have their time to fall,And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,And stars to set; but all,Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Time
  • Death
  • Fall

• The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Burial

• Where's the coward that would not dareTo fight for such a land?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Coward