Philip James Bailey Quotes

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
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• Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • Movement
  • Analysis

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Always
  • Person

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Commitment

• Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Need
  • Take
  • Spine

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Children
  • American

• Lying is the rule, not the exception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Lying
  • Rule
  • Exception

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • God
  • Illusion
  • Serving

• Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Live
  • Die
  • Everything

• If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Day
  • Friend

• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

  

  Kim Cattrall
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• Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Women
  • Power
  • Health

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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