Harry F. Byrd Quotes
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.Harry F. Byrd
Quotes to Explore
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Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
Lao Tzu -
Do you really think a group of kids from rural Virginia decided to do this on their own? Decided that the best way to embarrass Arabs and make them talk was to have them walk around nude?
Gary Myers -
Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.
Eve Hewson -
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry -
And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
Lance Ito -
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
Chris Bohjalian
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I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees.
Max Schneider -
Jesus desired to awaken inquiry. He sought to arouse the careless, and impress truth upon the heart. Parable teaching was popular, and commanded the respect and attention, not only of the Jews, but of the people of other nations. No more effective method of instruction could He have employed.
Ellen G. White -
The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.
Napoleon Hill -
No. He's not. He doesn't have the base.
Phil Jackson -
It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.
Richard Scott Bakker -
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Rene Descartes
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
Terry Brooks -
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
Haruki Murakami -
I'm going to usher in this entire new culture of the youth, obsessed with the future.
Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves -
When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.
Edward St Aubyn -
I started talking about things that everybody could relate to. And that's not to say I deserted my roots, I just found a way to talk about things in a broad way.
Gabriel Iglesias -
I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
Adam Conover
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It sure would be nice to have a Washington that was there for us, but most help has always been local and regional.
Eric Garcetti -
We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.
Michael B. Jordan -
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.
Harry F. Byrd