Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden -
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver -
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
Victoria Gotti -
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle -
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
L. Ron Hubbard
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
C. J. Cherryh -
You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
Antonin Scalia -
about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
Agnes Martin -
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
Fred Wilson -
I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
Cliff Martinez -
You don't miss what you never had.
Jamie Bell
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In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil -
I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed.
Mark Wahlberg -
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.
Matthew Perry -
I am a collector of jewels, old jewels.
Alessandro Michele -
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.
Joan Didion -
A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.
Peter Camejo
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I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today's music.
Lata Mangeshkar -
The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
Hector Hugh Munro