Fanny Lewald Quotes

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

Fanny Lewald

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• All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Judgment
  • Drink
  • Clouds

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Die
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Community
  • Stereotypes

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Dreams

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Afghanistan

• It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Game
  • Magic
  • Secrets

• I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Day
  • End

• 'You're such a liar.''But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?' She flashed her best smile at her friend.'I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,' her friend answered. 'Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Trying

• Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell

• I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Life

• All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

  

  Daniel Pinkwater

• [ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Years
  • Hero
  • I've Learned

• A lot of people assumed I faded off into the sunset.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Sunset
  • Faded

• You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.

  

  Theresa May
  • Daughter
  • Behave
  • Responsibilities

• I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

  

  Fanny Lewald