Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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• Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Business
  • Our
  • Smallest

• Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Expression

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Practice

• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Play

• People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

  

  Walt Disney
  • She
  • Story
  • Leader

• Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • Important
  • Action

• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• They're all big (games) for us. We have 10 home games, three road games and we feel like we have to win really a high majority of those games to finish where we have to finish if we want to go forward to gain momentum for the playoffs.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Home
  • High
  • Way

• I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • People
  • Great
  • Looks

• When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.

  

  Xu Zhimo
  • Poetry
  • Poverty
  • Predicament

• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  

  Zeina
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Ocean

• Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Moral
  • Values
  • Individual

• You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.

  

  Angel Kyodo Williams
  • Life
  • Accept
  • Examine

• Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Advantage
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