Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
Abu Bakr
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Eartha Kitt
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
Florenz Ziegfeld
If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
Zhang Zhidong
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel
In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
Caitlin Doughty
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a boss.
Halston
Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
J. Milton Hayes
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
Sai Baba
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
