Nancy Dunnan Quotes

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

Nancy Dunnan

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gift
  • Greatest
  • Thyself

• All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• Everything I say is true.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • True
  • Everything
  • Say

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Done
  • Change
  • Value

• All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Truth
  • Religions

• The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Help
  • Creation
  • Economics

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

  

  Hafez
  • Life
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  

  William James
  • Together
  • Action
  • Feelings

• People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed to deliver on its original aspiration. The result is a kind of political hemiagnosia: like those patients who cannot perceive one-half of their bodies, a large class of libertarian-leaning thinkers and politicians, with considerable public following, cannot perceive half of the economy: they cannot perceive the half that takes place beyond the market, after the employment contract is accepted.

  

  Elizabeth S. Anderson
  • Society
  • Independence
  • Market

• Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
  • Feelings
  • Ships
  • Hanging On