Spider Robinson Quotes
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
Idina Menzel -
It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
Canelo Alvarez -
I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.
T. Boone Pickens -
When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Major Taylor -
In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
Henry Paulson
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The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
John Stuart Mill -
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
Beatrice Sparks -
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
Kate Elliott -
Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.
Noel John Whittaker -
Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
Adam Clayton U2
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
Babe Paley -
Great striking partnerships come in pairs.
Nigel Spackman -
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
William Hazlitt -
I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.
Ellie Goulding -
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
Arthur Bryant -
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
William Griffith Wilson