James Thurber Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
Pat Buchanan -
For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
Parker Harris -
You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
Patricia Richardson -
My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
Taylor Momsen -
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Umberto Eco
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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather -
To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
Nate Torrence -
I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
Taylor Sheridan -
Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
Pastor Maldonado -
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
Hakeem Jeffries
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It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
Malcolm Wilson -
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
Frances O'Grady -
Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.
Barry Corbin -
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
Aaron Klein -
The devil take this wrong arithmetic. But never mind.
Karl Marx
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Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Eric Liu -
Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
Gabriel Byrne -
...there is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it.
Randall Jarrell -
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber