Bret Stephens Quotes
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.Bret Stephens
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
Fleur East -
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
Dag Hammarskjold -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Wayne Dyer -
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
Walt Mossberg -
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Irwin Shaw
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
Ranbir Kapoor -
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Saint Bernard -
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
Vin Diesel -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius -
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
Caio Fonseca -
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward -
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
Zac Efron -
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
Zainab Salbi -
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
Jane Hirshfield -
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Andrew Solomon -
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow -
The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
Bee Wilson -
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
Bret Stephens