George Combe Quotes
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
-
My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
-
The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
-
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
-
I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
-
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
-
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
-
I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
-
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
-
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
-
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
-
Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
-
It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
-
As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
-
When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
-
I'm a pro-horserace guy.
-
Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
-
I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
-
Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
-
And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
-
I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.
-
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
