Nannie Helen Burroughs Quotes

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

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• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Man
  • Race
  • Animals

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Technology

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • House
  • Success
  • Nice

• And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Happy
  • Training
  • Mission

• Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Look

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Question
  • Search
  • Meditation

• I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Magic

• I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • School

• I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Truth
  • Political
  • Party

• There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

  

  David Grann

• To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Dangerous
  • Equal
  • Degrading

• My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Unique

• People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Stupidity

• Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...

  

  Anton Chekhov

• When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Success
  • Small
  • Butterfly

• To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

  

  Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • Struggle
  • Force
  • Overcoming