Pearl Bailey Quotes

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Pearl Bailey

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• When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Man
  • You
  • Option

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Press

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Good
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• In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Summer
  • Short
  • Feet

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Way
  • Style
  • Relate

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • News
  • Watch
  • Obsessed

• My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• Being here: in a particular time and place. That is the existential position with particular implications for literature.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Literature

• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • God
  • Society

• The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Today
  • Popular

• You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Time

• Dallas is an extraordinary place in it's own right. The first thing about Dallas that you can't get away from, particularly when I arrived, you've got no idea of the heat in this place. It's over 100 degrees, and with that the humidity is ridiculous. I mean, people don't live here, armadillos live here.

  

  Chris Vance
  • People
  • Live

• When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Grow Up

• Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Song
  • Stage
  • Perception

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  

  Pearl Bailey