George Combe Quotes

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

George Combe

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• I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Determination

• What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Good
  • Some People

• When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Years
  • Old
  • Pounds

• I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • She
  • True
  • Know

• Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Night
  • Sleep

• We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Rest
  • Tired

• While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Earth

• BULLSHIT. Have you _looked_ at the patches you are talking about? You should have - several of them bear your name. ... As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE. ... WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?

  

  Linus Torvalds

• With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • Ugly

• What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

  

  Martin Short

• I'm not trying to be this cool girl. If you're trying to be something you're not, it's slowly going to bite you in the butt.

  

  Bella Hadid
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Cool

• The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

  

  Georges Lefebvre
  • Events
  • Cruelty
  • Moralist

• You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Live

• We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.

  

  George Combe