Robert W. Service Quotes
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
Quotes to Explore
-
My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.
Olly Murs
-
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
Kate Bush
-
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
-
Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
Barry Lam
-
My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
Uday Kotak
-
I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
Baruch Spinoza
-
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
-
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
B. F. Skinner
-
when we had a king, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could aye peeble them wi' stanes when they werena gude bairns - But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.
Walter Scott
-
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place.
William Butler Yeats
-
With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
David Henry Hwang
-
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Robert W. Service
