John Spratt Quotes

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

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• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Rest

• What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Working
  • Playing

• Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • Invest
  • E-mail

• I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Career
  • Know

• Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Spring

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Weird
  • Body

• I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Black
  • Fear

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Art

• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Men

• Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Song
  • Childhood

• If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Present

• I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

  

  Albert Pujols
  • Time
  • Power

• How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Style
  • English

• I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Hair

• Everything outside doesn't matter when I'm on the court; it's just me and nothing else. Family problems, school, what happened to my father, all the stress goes away.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Family
  • School
  • Father

• Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

  

  Donna Langley
  • Women
  • Business

• The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Peace

• Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.

  

  Lea Michele
  • People

• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Horse
  • Racks

• The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • People

• I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Risk

• Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.

  

  John Spratt