John Wanamaker Quotes

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• Pave your own path and be fearless.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Path
  • Own
  • Fearless

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• The world is no longer against us.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Against
  • U.S.

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Said
  • Kitchen
  • Restaurant

• I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Stop
  • Pressure
  • Threats

• I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Relationship

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Today
  • Training

• 'It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule.'' - The Secret Kingdom

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Perfect

• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Alone

• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • May

• I love 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shameless,' and - this is going to sound really dorky - I'm obsessed with 'Dance Moms.' I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer. Maybe if I ever get a big enough name, I can call Abby Lee Miller myself and ask her to be my private coach.

  

  Liana Liberato
  • Past
  • Dance
  • Walking

• Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Paradigm
  • September 11

• Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

  

  John Wanamaker
  • Snow