Henri Pirenne Quotes

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

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• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • History
  • True

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Guy
  • Think
  • Match

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Space
  • Attitude

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Stories
  • Old
  • Functioning

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Trying
  • Never
  • Doing

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Know
  • Him

• 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Funny

• Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Morning
  • Little
  • Improve

• No makeup can substitute for faces that have actually been under the sun.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Life
  • World
  • Serious

• If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

  

  Henri Pirenne
  • Life
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  • Eye