George Richards Minot Quotes

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

George Richards Minot

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Good
  • Sexy
  • Guitar

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• Television was essentially my college.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • College
  • Television

• I make technology ridiculous.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Technology

• Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Revolution

• All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Hochschild’s biggest mistake, though, was one made by almost every popularized housework study: not adequately measuring men’s contribution to work around the home. For example, if mom drives the children to daycare, it’s called housework; if dad drives the family to grandma’s, it isn’t called housework.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Children

• Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • World
  • Reality
  • Moments

• You no trouble. Me... Fifth element... supreme being... me protect you.

  

  Luc Besson

• London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Law

• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Great
  • Guilty

• If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Buddha

• The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Kids

• The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Great
  • Important

• When I'm filming, I live out of a suitcase, so everything is thrown everywhere. In real life, I'm a bit tidier.

  

  Joanne Froggatt
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

  

  F. M. Powicke
  • History
  • Way
  • Doe

• The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

  

  George Richards Minot
  • Men
  • Land
  • Independence