John Brunner Quotes
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?John Brunner
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman -
I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
Ian McKeever -
One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
Dan Hill -
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
Abbey Clancy -
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
Hanoi Hannah -
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Rahul Gandhi -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho -
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
Yul Vazquez -
I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
Laura San Giacomo
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
Warren Farrell -
If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
Alan Sugar -
As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
Marc Rich -
Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.
Aeschylus -
Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.1
Leonardo da Vinci -
I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.
Jason Dolley
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese -
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle -
In the Deep South, the unequal distribution of school funds based on Negroes’ “mental inferiority” was one way the caste system maintained itself through the generations. “Inferior” students got inferior schools, but truly, it was the inferior schools that created the inferior students. The two years of study resulted in the book Deep South, a seminal book in modern anthropology.
Alison Stewart -
Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.
Neil Bonnett -
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
Darrell Royal -
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
John Brunner