Francis Marion Crawford Quotes

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

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• How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Violence
  • Persuasion

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Me

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Couple
  • Court

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Words
  • Where
  • ERA

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Movies
  • Obsession
  • Had

• I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • House
  • Food

• I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Look
  • Will
  • Terrorism

• Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Best

• A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Job
  • Back

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Architecture
  • Islamic

• Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • God
  • Light
  • Heaven

• Sic volvenda aetas commutat tempora rerum.Quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore.

  

  Lucretius

• You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • Man
  • You
  • Him

• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  

  Jon Lovitz
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Game

• I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Up

• During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, 'fit to split the ears of groundlings.' He asked if it had a name, and I said 'Indianapolis.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Experience
  • Death
  • English

• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

  

  Francis Marion Crawford