Robert Walpole Quotes

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Up
  • Country
  • Small

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game

• Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money
  • She

• It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Beginning

• Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Up
  • Dance

• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Words

• It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

  

  James Douglas
  • Good
  • May
  • Alone

• Losing your parent is unlike anything.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Party
  • Sports

• For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Support
  • Emotional

• I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • World
  • Trying
  • Nice

• If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Country
  • Power
  • Law

• I dream of democratizing the fashion industry by giving everyone access to feeling their most beautiful and powerful every day and, at the same time, using technology to modernize how we get dressed.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Dream

• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.

  

  Bille August
  • Beginning

• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Together
  • Balance
  • Bold

• The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Two

• It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Beginning
  • Circumstances