Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Robert Falcon Scott

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• Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Golf

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Organization
  • Economic

• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• I will not get very far with this attitude.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Attitude
  • Will
  • Far

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Better
  • Influence
  • Eating

• Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Meant To Be

• Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Crazy

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Help
  • Stop
  • Caring

• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Women
  • Die
  • Regret