Stephen Fry Quotes
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
Hal Boyle -
The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
Andrew Solomon -
Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
We lose all that time which we might employ better.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Mary Elizabeth Lease -
If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
Jesse Livermore
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I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.
Maurice Saatchi -
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl Lagerfeld -
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
Epictetus -
He who hoards much loses much.
Lao Tzu -
Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
William Francis Buckley
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It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
James Hetfield Metallica -
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
Rene Descartes -
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle -
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Seneca the Younger -
My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
Alannah Myles -
His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
Aaron Elkins
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'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
Alex Trebek -
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
Paul O'Neill -
To try to help people have babies in a healthy way and to celebrate the process of delivering a child which will be healthy is, I think, almost the best part of healthcare.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry