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 don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Car
  • Driving
  • Unhappy

• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Mistake
  • Hero

• The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Eye
  • Leader
  • Danger

• By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up
  • Men
  • May

• You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.

  

  John Delaney
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Team

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

  

  Walter Scott
  • Coward