J. G. Stedman Quotes
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.J. G. Stedman
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
Taya Kyle -
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer -
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
Cameron Russell -
My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
Pat Paulsen -
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
Osman Baydemir -
I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
Ted Yoho -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
Haile Gebrselassie -
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce -
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
Laura Ingraham -
I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
Walt Mossberg -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
Orison Swett Marden -
What I do is I do my job.
Canelo Alvarez -
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel
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There's a plain girl in everybody.
Andrea Corr -
When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.
Jane McGonigal -
I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
Lesley Ann Warren -
As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.
Dierks Bentley -
Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
J. G. Stedman