Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

Robert Baden-Powell

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Running

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Pick

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

  

  Barry Took
  • Think
  • Better
  • Course

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Funny

• Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Sex

• O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • God
  • Help