William Gilmore Simms Quotes
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.William Gilmore Simms
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
Quentin Blake -
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop -
Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
J. Paul Getty -
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall -
My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
Madeline Carroll -
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Vince Carter
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz -
Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley -
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
Warren Zevon -
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrow -
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey -
There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
J. D. Vance -
The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
Naveen Jain -
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
Jack Schwartz -
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
Vikram Chatwal -
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca the Younger -
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
John Roger Stephens -
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.
Ansel Adams -
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
William Gilmore Simms