John Buchan Quotes
Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.John Buchan
Quotes to Explore
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
Carlos Slim -
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel -
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone -
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken -
'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
Kara Lindsay -
Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
Najib Razak -
Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
Pat Buchanan -
Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
Queen Latifah
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
AJ McLean -
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Laura Dern -
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
A. S. Byatt -
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Fantasia Barrino -
Intentions count in your actions.
Abu Bakr -
I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
Florentijn Hofman
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I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.
Arthur C. Clarke -
We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
Orson Scott Card -
Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.
A. E. Housman -
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
Cesare Pavese -
My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England.
Mary Beard -
Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.
John Buchan