Ernest Shackleton Quotes

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Ernest Shackleton

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Look
  • Clean

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Brain
  • Fiction
  • Shape

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• Social media... it's the future for the new generation.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Future
  • Media
  • Social Media

• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

  

  Sallust
  • Health
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• 'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • She

• Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Women
  • History
  • Law

• The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Music
  • Money
  • She

• I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

  

  Javier Bardem

• Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bullet
  • Appeal
  • Free Men

• Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination

• I was trying to be on some deep shit. I wanted to be a deep ass rapper. This is probably the only song that I’ve never performed. I’ll never perform it because it’s too deep. It gets real tranquil and docile in the crowd.

  

  Isaiah Rashad
  • Perform
  • Rapper
  • Shit

• Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Why
  • Change

• One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Words
  • Human
  • Speech