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
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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

• If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • May
  • Book

• But with the morning cool reflection came.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Morning
  • Cool
  • Reflection

• As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Up
  • American

• 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

• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Road

• My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.

  

  Carmine Appice Cactus
  • House
  • Serious
  • Parent

• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Road
  • Mountain

• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Fool

• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Love
  • Moment

• I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • People
  • Technology

• 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