Eric Hoffer Quotes
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.Eric Hoffer
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian -
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling -
My parents have been with me every step of the way.
Haley Reinhart -
Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis -
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes -
Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel Castro -
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
Ted Yoho
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
Ed Rendell -
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
Baz Luhrmann -
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
Orson Pratt -
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
Kate Moss -
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild
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When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire-one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.
Ayn Rand -
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho -
There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.
David Cameron -
I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
Oscar Taveras -
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer