John Lyly Quotes

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

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• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Books
  • Read
  • Just

• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Up
  • Ideas

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • High
  • You
  • Worst

• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Obsession

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Believe
  • Terrorism

• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
  • Trust
  • Five

• John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • America
  • Hard Work

• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Men
  • Same

• The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Control
  • Government
  • Budget

• I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Night
  • Free

• Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Others
  • Brainy

• I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Insecure
  • Sleeping

• The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer.

  

  Gary Snyder

• I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • House

• I take a wolf's rib and whittleit sharp at both endsand coil it upand freeze it in blubber and place it outon the fairway of the bears.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Wolf

• Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.

  

  Nicholas Rodger
  • Impossible
  • Nations
  • Peaceful

• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • World
  • Long
  • Money

• I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Trying
  • Effort

• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Lette me stande to the maine chance.

  

  John Lyly