R. M. Ballantyne Quotes

To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

R. M. Ballantyne

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Long
  • Business
  • Financial

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Long
  • Economy
  • Admire

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Shake
  • Standpoint

• It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Time
  • True
  • Eyes

• I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • History
  • Speak
  • Playing

• To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Real
  • May
  • Performance

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

  

  Alma Guillermoprieto
  • Wonder
  • California

• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
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