Ernest Shackleton Quotes

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Ernest Shackleton

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• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Mean
  • Things

• The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Together
  • Nature

• I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Like

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Love
  • Absorbed

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Success
  • Learn
  • End

• We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Try
  • Property
  • Rather

• I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Church
  • Easy
  • Week

• Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Live
  • Me
  • Day

• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Book
  • Mother
  • Guy

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Growing
  • Joy

• I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

  

  Katie Cassidy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Nice

• I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

  

  Jennifer Haigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

  

  Chrisette Michele Payne

• If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Results
  • Knew
  • Sharing

• Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Attitude
  • Divine

• I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Like
  • Fiction

• Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Special

• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

  

  Sophocles
  • Dead
  • Gratitude
  • Proved

• I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Dead
  • Lion
  • Donkey