Jonathan Sacks Quotes
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.Jonathan Sacks
Quotes to Explore
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Xi Jinping -
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn -
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Saint Bernard -
I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
Orison Swett Marden -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
Victoria Abril -
I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
Patrice O'Neal -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
Cameron Winklevoss -
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
Jack Ma -
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
Karl Malone -
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis -
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
Rae Dawn Chong -
It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
Nathan Fillion -
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Danica Patrick -
Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
Valentina Tereshkova
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Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
Ariel Levy -
To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.
Nell Newman -
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde -
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
Margaret Heffernan -
I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
Paula Fox -
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
Jonathan Sacks