W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
Ian McKeever -
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
Making music is fantastic.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro -
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong -
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
Palmer Luckey -
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
Oliver Sim The xx
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul -
The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar -
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger -
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Lawrence G. Lovasik -
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
Marcel Proust -
The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee -
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
Jeff Kinney -
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
W. Somerset Maugham