Robert W. Service Quotes

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

• Mountain
• Anger
• Sand
• Grain
• Betrayed

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• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Work
  • Victories

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Jealousy

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Space
  • Brain
  • Busy

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Song
  • Internet
  • Honesty

• Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Down

• Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Anybody
  • Any

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • Women
  • Architecture

• But with the morning cool reflection came.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Morning
  • Cool
  • Reflection

• A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Proud

• Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • Organization

• I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Evil

• To make harmonics scream, I first dump my Floyd Rose real quick, hit a harmonic with my left hand while the string is still flapping, and then use the bar to pull it up to the pitch I wanna hit.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Real
  • Hand

• A big part of making a good record is really getting a vibe, and a vibe is a mysterious thing. The vibe kind of exists in the air in the room. It's not just all the stuff you put on there, and the specific notes and arrangements and all that. That's like half of it. The other half is just the air, and just the spirit.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Spirit
  • Record
  • Exists

• It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Running

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• The worst thing in the world is to write something and be like that’s crap.

  

  John Dolmayan System Of A Down
  • World
  • Write
  • Crap

• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Mountain
  • Anger
  • Sand