Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happinessOliver Goldsmith
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper -
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg -
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Carli Lloyd
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Eckhart Tolle -
I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
Calista Flockhart -
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett -
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Jackie Chan -
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Dan Brown -
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Beatrice Wood
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It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it.
Carole King -
If you want it bad enough, you have to be willing to fight for it.
Chalene Johnson -
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
Oliver Goldsmith