Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Daniel Burnham -
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
Edith Widder -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Harold Washington -
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.
Ted Allen
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie Chan -
My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.
Lacey Chabert -
The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
Larry Flynt -
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Aamir Khan -
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
Eckhart Tolle -
Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.
Tupac Shakur -
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
Alfred de Musset -
Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell -
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
David Chalmers -
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
Bethany McLean
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I compliment people when I see something I really like and tell them, 'That was good. Keep doing what you're doing.' That's as much as advice as you will get out of me.
Jeff Hardy -
Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.
Warren W. Wiersbe -
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Lord Dunsany -
I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
Aaron Patzer -
She didn't want me to miss two days considering the players that we have out and how banged up we are now. Typical baseball mom, she's taking it for the team.
Craig Biggio -
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Wortley Montagu