R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
R. M. Ballantyne
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt
Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
Warren Christopher
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Frances Wright
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez
If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
Forest Whitaker
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Dambisa Moyo
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
Dan Hawkins
Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
Lake Bell
I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
Zach LaVine
If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Dan Castellaneta
Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
Barbara Mikulski
I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
La'Porsha Renae
The evidence in this case speaks for itself, ... Top managers knew market timing was harming buy-and-hold investors but they condoned and facilitated it because it was a lucrative source of management fee revenues.
Eliot Spitzer
You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
R. M. Ballantyne
