Thomas Hood Quotes

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

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• I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Choices

• I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Happy
  • Career
  • End

• The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Opportunity
  • Defeat
  • Often

• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mind
  • Something
  • I Can

• I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Me
  • Songs

• I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Sex
  • Perspective

• That's what it is all about, coming in and playing a game like it is your last. That's what we did. We fought on the defensive end, we fought trying to get rebounds, and we let the offense take care of itself.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Offense

• When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Live
  • Rights

• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • History
  • Age

• Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Long
  • Action
  • Health

• I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Gift
  • Disappointed
  • Skate

• The next world war will be fought with stones.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • War
  • Next

• The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Important
  • Health
  • Agency

• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Poor
  • Dare

• I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Bad
  • Happy

• How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Curse
  • Bless
  • Agency