Washington Allston Quotes
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.Washington Allston
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
Haley Barbour -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
H. Allen Smith -
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
Nathan Myhrvold -
It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
Carlene Carter -
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
Damien Chazelle -
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
Oscar Wilde -
No gentleman ever has any money.
Oscar Wilde
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde -
...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
Randall Jarrell -
I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.
Jennifer Hyman -
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
Brian Greene -
I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.
Don Ho -
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
Jeff Landry
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The term 'plus size' is so inaccurate. I'm not plus size; I have never bought an article of clothing that was plus size.
Barbie Ferreira -
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
Berenice Bejo -
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.
Baltasar Gracian -
I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
Octavia Spencer -
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.
Jill Lepore -
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston