James Salter Quotes
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff -
There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
Hans Rosling -
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
Barney Frank -
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
Zhang Ziyi -
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
Gary Johnson -
I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
Samantha Fox
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
Sam Yagan -
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
Daniel Craig -
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot -
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Walid Jumblatt -
I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.
Taliesin
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
Warren Farrell -
Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.
Ben Carson -
Margaret Sanger: On the contrary, it seems to me that it is more practical and Humane.
Margaret Sanger -
What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.
Bono U2 -
You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
Albert Einstein -
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
Mary Beard
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After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
Janis Karpinski -
Where the determination is, the way can be found.
George S. Clason -
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Michael Winner -
A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
James Salter