John Arbuthnot Quotes

It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.

John Arbuthnot

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Best
  • Always

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Clothes
  • Turn
  • Park

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

  

  John Noble
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Regret

• Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Mysterious

• Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

  

  Paul Berg
  • Society
  • Science
  • Relationship

• I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Time
  • Actress
  • saw

• It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Art
  • Science
  • Fall