Izaak Walton Quotes

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

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• I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Question
  • Go
  • Meeting

• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Guy
  • Shave

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Team
  • Military
  • Red

• It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Power
  • Giving

• The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Single

• I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Peace

• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Men
  • Author

• While you can be trained and groomed to be a better actor, seasoning happens only to TV actors. TV actors shoot every day, and that makes a difference to the project. They are hard-working, but that's not taking anything away from the film actors.

  

  Barun Sobti

• Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Culture

• A lot of Disney Channel actors and actresses, when they stop working for Disney Channel, they have a real aversion for not wanting to be remembered by Disney Channel.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Real
  • Stop
  • Disney

• The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Twin

• I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

  

  Patti Davis
  • Father
  • Birthday

• You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz

• Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • Up
  • Time

• The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Journalism

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  

  Darlene Cates
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Respect

• I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Live
  • School
  • Tennis

• I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Good
  • May
  • Silly

• If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

  

  Izaak Walton
  • Thankful
  • Received
  • Escaped