Jean de la Bruyere Quotes
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.Jean de la Bruyere
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
Camille Paglia -
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
Oleg Deripaska -
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson -
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk -
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis -
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
Mamie Gummer
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble -
I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
Laura Trott -
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro -
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.
Karl Landsteiner -
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale -
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Barbara Johnson -
People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
P. Chidambaram -
As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
Ira Glass -
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton
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After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.
Kim Yuna -
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
Aisha Tyler -
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
Amanda Harlech -
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
Katherine Mansfield -
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
Candace Bushnell -
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere