Robert Walpole Quotes

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert Walpole

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• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Business

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Music
  • They Say

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I really enjoy being an actor!

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Being

• I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • Father
  • Change
  • Tough

• 'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Long
  • Game
  • City

• I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Space

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Believe
  • True
  • Dream

• What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Practice

• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Community
  • Peace
  • Positive

• You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Desire
  • Health
  • Father Or Mother

• Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Force
  • Truths
  • Illusions

• In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• God created two acts of folly. First, He created the Universe in a Big Bang. Second, He was negligent enough to leave behind evidence for this act, in the form of microwave radiation.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Universe
  • Enough
  • Evidence

• Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Patriotism
  • Gentlemen