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

• 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

• 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

• 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'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

  

  Elizabeth Banks

• I got an invitation to go to the Olympic trials. And in the same week, I got a telegram from a... big executive at Columbia Records.

  

  Johnny Mathis

• I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve the people of our state.

  

  David Minge
  • People
  • Opportunity

• The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.

  

  Jerry West
  • Different
  • Age
  • Guy

• We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.

  

  Alexander Ahndoril
  • Children
  • Bad

• If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

  

  David Cameron
  • Work
  • Job

• Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

  

  Euripides
  • Wisdom
  • Thoughts
  • Cleverness

• Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Motto
  • Peril
  • Misprize

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Political

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

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Words
  • Human
  • Speech