Alec Douglas-Home Quotes

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

Alec Douglas-Home

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• Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

  

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• I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

  

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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  

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• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  

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• For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

  

  Otto Frank
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• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  

  Dale Carnegie
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• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
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• I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.

  

  Alex D. Linz
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• Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

  

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  • People
  • Earth
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• I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

  

  Ben Affleck
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• Truth is stranger than fishin.

  

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• It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

  

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• Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

  

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• Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

  

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• Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.

  

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• Voice is 10 times that of the access business.

  

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• I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.

  

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• Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

  

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  • Deep
  • Run
  • Resentment

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

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• Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Vanity
  • Pity
  • Resentment