Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson -
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
Jackie DeShannon -
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
Gary Wolf -
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
Damien Chazelle -
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen -
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon -
All of us grow.
Foster Friess -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
Natascha McElhone -
I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
Yves Chauvin -
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard -
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
Nate Berkus -
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
Zubin Mehta -
There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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The moment with Hawkeye is all about mutual attraction, expressed without filter from him, and a surrendering of social guardedness from Cora. She accepts his directness as her own.
Madeleine Stowe -
'Communist society'; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.
David Graeber -
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
Mackenzie King -
a king can only work with his best tools.
T. H. White -
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
Zig Ziglar -
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends.
Johann Kaspar Lavater