Norman Davies Quotes

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

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• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Guitar

• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Business
  • Question
  • Door

• It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • May

• I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Gay

• I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Thinking
  • Cameras
  • Performances

• Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Gone

• We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate impact will be a further weakening in the operating environment and a delay in the economic recovery, ... However, given increased fiscal and monetary stimulus, we anticipate that long-term economic recovery should be more certain and vigorous than previously expected.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Business

• It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • inspirational

• I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth’s magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Wisdom
  • Politics
  • Slavery

• This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.

  

  Wickliffe Rose
  • Important
  • Science
  • Own

• I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

  

  Angus Loughran
  • Coaches
  • Score
  • Fourth

• And sometimes men fail, I answered silently. Sometimes they don't forgive. Sometimes what you see is only the bright surface of something cold and deep.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Fail
  • Forgive
  • Surface

• All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Nations
  • Replaced
  • Bloom