John Robert Seeley Quotes
... John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things-to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.
John Robert Seeley
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
Valerie Plame
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright
I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
Talulah Riley
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Kate Winslet
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell
I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
Yvette Nicole Brown
Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
Felicity Jones
Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!
Denise Van Outen
It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
Charles Barkley
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
Bill Bryson
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.
Jamie Johnson
... John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things-to inaugurate a new régime, and also to nominate a successor who was far greater than himself.
John Robert Seeley
