James Wolfe Quotes

'Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.'

James Wolfe

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• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • High
  • Night

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Car
  • Better

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Singer
  • Anybody
  • Then

• Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Successful
  • Prove

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Ability

• I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing 'have I labored,' neither has my exile been 'in vain.'

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart

• Advice, n. The smallest current coin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Advice

• We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west… This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters who hold on ferociously to the monopoly off all the riches and all the gold of the earth…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Struggle
  • Revolution

• I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• We are not rich in the bank, but we have always prospered and we have quite enough. I never walk out with my husband but I hear the people bless him. I never lie down at night, but I know that in the course of that day he has alleviated pain and soothed some fellow creature in the time of need. Is not this to be rich?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Time
  • Night

• Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Trying

• Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Time

• At the end of the day, you have to do what you think is right and be human.

  

  Belinda Johnson

• I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

  

  James Broughton
  • Writing

• Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Involved

• I hate bacon. And sunshine, as my friends like to point out.

  

  Aubrey Peeples
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Sunshine

• Are you going to divest in the banks and pension funds? Plenty of people are willing to invest in stock of those companies. You can argue that when a lot of people divest, it makes the stock price artificially low, which makes their price-to-earnings ratio more favorable, which makes it a better investment for the people who don't give a damn - - and is it really going to change corporate behavior? It begins to create a climate of antagonistic opinion, the result might be that the corporate executives will retreat even more into their own selfjustifying narratives.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opinion

• But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia.

  

  Daniel Yergin

• 'Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.'

  

  James Wolfe