Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Robert Falcon Scott

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • May
  • Knowledge

• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  

  Nas
  • Friends
  • America
  • Friend

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Me
  • Best
  • Speak

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Trying
  • You
  • Burden

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
  • Need
  • Snogging

• I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Man
  • Relationship

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Company
  • Chinese

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth

• I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

  

  Joe Russo
  • People
  • Ocean

• The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

  

  Bradley Walsh

• I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Different
  • Done

• The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him 'better.'

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fear

• I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Journey