Nancy Atherton Quotes
The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism—Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate—and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?Nancy Atherton
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Ovid -
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson -
I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
Ted Nugent -
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis -
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni -
Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Zhang Zhidong -
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln -
All wishes are not idle, nor in vain fulfilment we devise - for pain is pain, not for itself to be desired, but ill; or else to strive or to subdue the will alike were graceless; and of Evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin -
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
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Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.
Harry Callahan -
God often gives nuts to toothless people.
Matt Groening -
As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
John Cameron Mitchell -
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
Ian Somerhalder -
The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism—Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate—and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?
Nancy Atherton