E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
Raha Moharrak -
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
J. D. Vance -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan -
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson -
Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
Gaby Hoffmann
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith -
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley -
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
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If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
Garret Dillahunt -
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
Omari Hardwick -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln -
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
John Stuart Mill -
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de Mille -
My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.
Benton MacKaye -
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
Eric Burdon -
I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.
Elizabeth Hand -
A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax