Steve Martin Quotes

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

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• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Always
  • Never
  • Been

• Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Faith

• An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Ocean
  • Chaos

• During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Question
  • Air
  • Battle

• If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Stop
  • Star
  • Inspired

• God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Country
  • Children

• I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Person
  • Romantic
  • Notes

• The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

  

  William Hamilton Maxwell
  • Country
  • Extraordinary

• To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Compassion
  • Individual
  • Concern

• Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Victory
  • Accomplishment
  • Triumph

• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • My Life
  • Consequence
  • Chickens

• He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Hair
  • Touch
  • Remembering

• Let’s make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Free
  • Chance
  • Succeed

• Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

  

  David Deida
  • May
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• When you're away from the course, obviously things are a little bit different. But when you're at the course, you're playing, you're grinding. Today, I'm preparing. I have enough on my mind out there trying to place my shots, and what angles I need to have, or where I need to be for certain pins, and stuff like that.

  

  Earl Woods
  • Different
  • Playing
  • Shots

• ...the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time
  • Love
  • Hesitate

• I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Shots
  • Chimneys