James Branch Cabell Quotes
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
Quotes to Explore
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
Rachel Platten -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit -
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons -
We're all idealistic when young.
Pat Oliphant
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
Nathaniel Rich -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
A.J. Styles -
Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis -
I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
Laila Ali -
When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
Caitriona Balfe -
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Edith Schaeffer
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
Ma Jun -
I have a very dark sense of humor.
Andy Dick -
In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.
Ian Bryce -
2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement rather than as an experiment.
Chris Larsen -
Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
Barry McCaffrey -
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell