B. W. Powe Quotes

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

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• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Game
  • Enjoy
  • Hitting

• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Same

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Know
  • Rock

• Just say no to drugs!

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Say
  • Just

• That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Way
  • Said
  • Mystery

• When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Life
  • Always
  • Rights

• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • House
  • Nice
  • Sick

• For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Being
  • Privilege

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • World
  • Best
  • Bird

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Matter

• Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Human Beings

• The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

  

  Nick Fradiani
  • Artist
  • Ability
  • Ear

• Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

  

  John Milton
  • Simple
  • Poetry
  • Plato

• To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Life
  • Live
  • Peace

• I don't care about Donald Trump. I mean, God is my president. So I just feel sorry for people it affects, but I don't care about him.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • People
  • God
  • Trump

• There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

  

  B. W. Powe