Millicent Fawcett Quotes

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

Millicent Fawcett

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• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Political
  • Fashion
  • Group

• 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

• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Walking
  • Sorry
  • Thank You

• During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Never
  • Years
  • Cricket

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

  

  Lee Pace
  • Surfing

• I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Life
  • Forever

• In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

  

  Kelly Miller
  • Great

• The best ones - Hulk Hogan believes in Hulkamania. It's not a thing he's selling here. It's real. He knows it's real because he goes to the Mall Of America and everybody goes insane, right? Wrestling is real. Those characters are real.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Real
  • America
  • Wrestling

• That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Attention
  • Jesus

• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Vote

• Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Business
  • Should
  • Looks

• You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Funny
  • Amazing
  • Star

• And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Sea
  • Made

• That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Morning
  • Persons
  • Doe

• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  

  Socrates
  • Knowledge
  • Wealth
  • Prefer

• There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Mistake
  • Persons
  • Made