Jules Verne Quotes

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Free
  • Quality
  • Honesty

• Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Kids
  • Best
  • Expectations

• I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Never
  • Movement
  • Fast

• I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Today
  • Lot
  • Struggled

• I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Job
  • Know
  • Lucky

• In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Men
  • Sometimes
  • Relief

• Every team we play is a rivalry in a sense, because you try to win every game. That's what it's all about. Who knows who came up with this rivalry?

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Game
  • Team
  • Play

• I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paint
  • Carry
  • Transforms

• I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Men
  • Home
  • Kind

• One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Winning
  • Failure
  • Chance

• Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Society
  • Communities

• Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Preparing

• Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moon
  • Swear

• We exhaust ourselves worrying about our health. We're obsessed with it. We worry about our health and when we worry about our health, guess what? We're not fucking healthy! We're so worried about our health that we are now the fattest group of fucks on the planet Earth! 'Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Earth
  • Health
  • Worry

• Last year, we commissioned a new gas deposit, and our agreement with Gasport has worked.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Agreement
  • Gas deposit
  • Gasport

• Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Democratic
  • Historical Person

• Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good physical exertion and healthful activities. A healthy soul...is in better condition to overthrow the devil.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Soul
  • Sport
  • Condition

• As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Overcome
  • Difficulties
  • Ferguson