Thomas Hood Quotes

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

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• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Chinese
  • Making
  • Nobody

• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
  • Better
  • Horse

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • May
  • Happen
  • Flexibility

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Job
  • Economic
  • Incentives

• Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Style
  • Serious
  • Wonder

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  

  LaToya London
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Man

• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Always
  • Advice

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Military
  • Transformation

• I was patriarch To Elijah and Elijah. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.

  

  Taliesin

• If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished!

  

  Kehlani
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Game
  • Song
  • Search

• What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.

  

  Major Owens
  • Enemy
  • Greatest
  • Segregation

• Without question, I wake every night five times.

  

  George Clooney
  • Night
  • Question

• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Approach

• Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Failure
  • inspirational
  • Horse