Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
Harrison Ford -
I love what I do.
Vanessa Paradis -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
L. Neil Smith -
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
Ramakrishna -
The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
Walt Whitman -
'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
Ian Paisley -
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Ramana Maharshi -
Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
Jack Vance
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
Rabindranath Tagore -
We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
Rahul Gandhi -
The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young -
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams -
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove -
When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler -
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
David Liss -
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
William Gilmore Simms -
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
Vladimir Nabokov