John Brown Gordon Quotes

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

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• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Important
  • Water
  • Serious

• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Kids
  • Team
  • Husband

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Honor

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • You
  • Style
  • Air

• Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Care
  • Body
  • Breathing

• I'm not really a model.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Model
  • Really

• Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Small

• To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • World
  • English
  • Organization

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • God

• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Sleep
  • Rose

• Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • World
  • Heart

• Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Practice

• I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Happy

• I've been cast in a lot of comedies. I've done things like multi-cam sitcoms: you know, 'Seinfeld' type... not as good as 'Seinfeld,' but that kind of thing. I love that stuff.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Good
  • Done

• Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Experience
  • Romantic
  • Management

• Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Happiness

• I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

  

  John Brown Gordon