Ada Velez Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
Xavier Niel -
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams -
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
Damian Lewis -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann -
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
Wally Schirra -
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono -
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett -
To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave. The world would not be if not for my offspring. I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.
Taliesin -
And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you
Zooey Deschanel
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
Aldo Leopold -
Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
Mark Skousen -
I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.
Emeraude Toubia -
I owe a lot to my parents.
Maria Sharapova -
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Martha Graham
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
Lucian Freud -
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
Oscar Wilde -
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Charles Dickens -
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez