W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Forty
  • Sandwich
  • Ham

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Causes
  • Avoid
  • Compromises

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Support

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.

  

  Emmanuel Benbihy
  • People
  • Dream
  • Chance

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Sex

• I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Time
  • Like
  • Young

• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Grains
  • Chancery

• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Death
  • Living
  • Dead