Philip James Bailey Quotes

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

Philip James Bailey

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• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Impossible
  • Word
  • Fools

• I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kiss

• When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Serious

• I grew up in New York, I love New York.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Up

• 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Proud

• I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

  

  Anne Northup
  • Country
  • Political
  • Perspective

• Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

  

  Lil Rel Howery
  • Up

• Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Grandmother

• I think life is pretty awesome.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Awesome

• I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.

  

  Donny Robinson
  • Moving
  • Goals

• All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Heart
  • Light

• If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Money
  • Guy

• In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Guy
  • Winning
  • Secret

• If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Thinking
  • Inspiring

• Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all the same person, when I handed the manuscript to the publisher, as I had been when I began. A memoir may always be retrospective, but the past is not where its action takes place.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • May
  • Past
  • Action

• You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Life
  • Die

• Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • People
  • Long
  • Grind

• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Creatures
  • Grind
  • Self-improvement