W. C. Brownell Quotes
Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.W. C. Brownell
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
A notable scheme has occurred to me.
Jack Vance -
This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
Aeschylus -
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams -
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
Ray Charles -
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
Paul Thomas Anderson -
My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
Bella Hadid -
Don't believe everything you think - or feel.
Anna Chancellor -
The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'
Plutarch -
I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
Dwight L. Moody
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'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
Joe Haldeman -
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of China. Cain says it's a great idea because if there's one thing you don't see in China, it's Mexicans.
Conan O'Brien -
Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.
Kam Williams -
It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
Leo Howard -
The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
George Allen, Sr. -
I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.
Rachel Weisz -
I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.
Richard Jefferson -
Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
W. C. Brownell