Edmund Hillary Quotes

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Work
  • Single

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Think
  • You
  • Boy

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Humor

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Writing
  • Guy

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Love
  • Business

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• I have a lot of vanity.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Vanity
  • Lot

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Money
  • Love
  • Crazy

• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Up
  • Garden

• If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

  

  Leon Spinks
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.

  

  Bill Shorten
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.

  

  Lorde
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

  

  Ian McDonald Foreigner
  • World
  • May
  • Lies

• I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Gift