Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

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• Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Education
  • Sports

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Free
  • Day
  • Fighting

• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Mom
  • Hell
  • Pay

• It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Important
  • Start

• Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Art
  • Age
  • Child

• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Sadness

• I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Think
  • Study
  • Start

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

  

  Archimedes
  • Balance

• Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Reality
  • Team
  • Challenge

• Cien hombres, juntos, son la centésima parte de un hombre.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Life
  • Amazing

• When I'm dealing with Britney Spears and Katy Perry, these massive brands, like, really, very Coca-Cola, you know what I mean? There are certain kinds of standards. There are risks you can take, and there's risks that you don't. And I think I'm interested in taking a little more risk in my own music.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Music
  • Risk

• Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

  

  Mickey Kaus
  • Party
  • Seems
  • Skins

• Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

  

  Martti Ahtisaari
  • Great
  • Country
  • Home

• I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • School
  • Home
  • Experience

• For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

  

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