Socrates Quotes
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse -
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Ralph Bellamy -
In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
Malin Akerman -
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters -
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo -
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
Edith Widder -
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Tavis Smiley -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
Olga Kurylenko -
I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
Maeve Binchy
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
Tariq Ali -
I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
Barry Larkin -
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt -
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson -
You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
Kabir Bedi -
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Imelda Marcos
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac -
Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras -
Out of what was unsettled and ugly, God crafted a new creation.
Jeffery A. Cook Alabama -
He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just, Shows of the resurrection little trust.
Ben Jonson -
Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
Gene Saks -
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates