Stephen Fry Quotes

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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• I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Control
  • Path
  • Leadership

• A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Mind
  • May
  • Soul

• Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Boy

• The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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  • Entrepreneur

• To see that I'm on a good path, that I'm improving, is what I want to feel.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Good
  • Path

• Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.

  

  Jim Allchin
  • Together
  • Today
  • Path

• The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Country
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  • Rip

• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • History
  • Path

• People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Power
  • Path

• We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Time
  • Period
  • Path

• We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

  

  Kyan Douglas
  • Life
  • Path

• When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • People
  • Important
  • She

• For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Future
  • Career
  • Military

• I do think some digital currency will end up being the reserve currency of the world. I see a path where that's going to happen.

  

  Brian Armstrong
  • Up
  • World
  • Path

• Health insurance costs in the United States are on an unsustainable path. I've heard from hundreds of Montanans who are paying thousands of dollars every year for their health insurance coverage and thousands more for deductibles before their insurance provides any benefit.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Health
  • Path
  • Insurance

• I hope that your Government will refrain from any action which would widen or deepen this already grave crisis and that we can agree to resume the path of peaceful negotiation.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Hope
  • Action
  • Path

• I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Path
  • Successful

• We informed the government and UNITA of the flight details -- the flight path, the time, the number of people on board and the cargo.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • People
  • Time
  • Path

• Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

  

  Kabir
  • Water
  • Path
  • Smile

• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Fishing

• To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.

  

  Danny Rimer
  • Up
  • Why
  • Running

• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Church

• Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Path
  • Intellect