H. P. Blavatsky Quotes

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

H. P. Blavatsky

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• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Independent

• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Always
  • Connection

• I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Planning

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Find
  • Architecture

• I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Balance

• Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Parents

• Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Support
  • Year
  • Cat

• My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Father
  • Husband

• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Committed

• The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • German

• Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

  

  Walter Pater
  • People
  • Age

• The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • America
  • Success
  • Popular

• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • American
  • Organization

• Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Brain

• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Universe

• I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • I Think
  • I Hope
  • Favor

• I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Taught
  • Seldom
  • Mention

• I'm not about being sexy. I'm about the music.

  

  Cheyenne Kimball
  • Music
  • Sexy

• Life may not always be fair, but it can be Farrah.

  

  Farrah Franklin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Fair

• Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

  

  H. P. Blavatsky