Isabelle Eberhardt (Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt) Quotes

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

Isabelle Eberhardt

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• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

  

  Orson Welles
  • American
  • Reality
  • Process

• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Know
  • Sports

• 'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what's best and what's cool.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Help
  • Best
  • Cool

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Opportunity
  • Innovation
  • Collaboration

• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Grade

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Game
  • Lucky

• There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Success
  • New

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Nature
  • Horse

• I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Jesus

• I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Job
  • Reading

• Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Action

• Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Desire
  • Kiss

• Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Up
  • Independent
  • Celebrity

• Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Desires

• Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

  

  Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Life
  • Road
  • Liberty