Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.Georg C. Lichtenberg
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
Natalie Cole -
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes -
I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
Lady Gaga -
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
Aaron Swartz -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Tamora Pierce -
Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
Edmonia Lewis -
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach -
I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
Walter O'Brien -
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel -
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius -
I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
Yogi Berra
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What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.
Saint Augustine -
Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
William Butler Yeats -
But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
C. S. Lewis -
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
Jonas Gahr Store -
Interdependency follows independence.
Stephen Covey -
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg C. Lichtenberg