James Stephens Quotes
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.James Stephens
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
O. Henry -
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg -
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
Adam Peaty -
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken -
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
Eden Hazard -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
Eddie Kaye Thomas -
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
Jack Lynch -
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
Caity Lotz -
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
Gary Locke -
I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
Victor Ponta -
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar -
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
Vanity -
You can't impose a legacy.
Iain Sinclair -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
Benjamin Graham -
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
Oliver Goldsmith -
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
C.P. Snow -
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
James Stephens