Stephen Fry Quotes
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
Gary Numan -
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot -
I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
Felicity Jones -
I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza -
Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
Yvon Chouinard
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Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
Oprah Winfrey -
I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
Barack Obama -
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
Donald Miller -
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
Heraclitus -
Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.
Epictetus -
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
William Hogarth
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
William Shakespeare -
When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.
Mikhail Lermontov -
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
Moliere -
At one point in life, the year of entry and subtraction.
Oda Nobunaga -
Never be a minion, always be an owner.
Cornelius Vanderbilt -
Entry is not equivalent to possession.
Stephen Fry