Pierre Loti Quotes
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.Pierre Loti
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling -
In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
Lance Henriksen -
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
Vince Cable -
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
Kacey Musgraves -
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
Kate Adie -
I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
Foster Friess -
I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
Daniel Barenboim -
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Karl Barth -
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
Idina Menzel -
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman -
Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Orla Brady -
Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
Patrick Lencioni -
The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
Rahm Emanuel -
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.
Buzz Aldrin -
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
C. L. R. James -
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
Lion Feuchtwanger -
According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.
Sadao Araki -
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti