Branch Rickey Quotes
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
Rachel Nichols -
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
Victoria Pendleton -
I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
Kapil Dev -
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
Pamela Sue Martin -
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
Valerie June -
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.
Maggie Gallagher -
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
Os Guinness -
Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth -
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
Fernando Flores
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
Kate Klise -
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
Ophelia Lovibond -
You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
Barack Obama -
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde -
Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
Orson Scott Card -
When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.
M. C. Escher
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
Thomas Carlyle -
I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
Park Chan-wook -
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru -
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
Louis XIV -
I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
Laurie Anderson -
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
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