Pierre Loti Quotes

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

Pierre Loti

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Humanity

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Great
  • Age
  • Dream

• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Identity

• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Want
  • Making

• I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • Great
  • Friends

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Great
  • God
  • Father

• Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Real
  • America
  • Black

• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Wife

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’ W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

  

  Mark Williams
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • Great
  • Live
  • Country