Josh Billings Quotes

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • House
  • Film

• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Society
  • Justice

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Heart
  • Start
  • Building

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Ambition

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • You
  • Brother
  • Him

• I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Book-learning scarcely tells me Of severe afflictions after death-bed; And such as have heard my bardic books They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.

  

  Taliesin
  • Book
  • Death
  • Learning

• The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Great
  • Long
  • Business

• I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • She

• Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Hurt

• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

  

  Marsha Blackburn

• We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'

  

  David Hasselhoff

• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there's just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There's always something to do. Always.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Inspired

• Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

  

  Josh Billings
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Chastity