Harry Kroto Quotes

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

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• I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Flirtatious

• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Writing
  • Color

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Europe
  • China
  • France

• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • People
  • War
  • Lie

• I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Running
  • Day

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• I'm gonna pick up the pieces,and build a Lego house.When things go wrong we can knock it down.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • House

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• 'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • God
  • Men

• The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Done
  • Free

• And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • People
  • Heart
  • Truth

• There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Giving

• It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

  

  Alexandra Roach
  • Important
  • Effort

• You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • People
  • Success
  • Practice

• If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Experiences
  • Chances
  • Guarantees

• If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Effort