Joseph Lister Quotes

If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?

Joseph Lister

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Find

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Children
  • Age
  • Thought

• People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Paintings
  • Plague

• A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Done
  • Software
  • Fix

• There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • Space

• We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.

  

  Dan Fogelberg

• It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Sleep
  • Design

• Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • World

• In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their own powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes toward a great avenger and liberator who someday will come and accomplish his mission.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Great
  • Eyes

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Divorce

• I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?

  

  Joseph Lister
  • Good
  • Opportunities
  • To Do