Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
Fat Joe
One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan
I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
B. D. Wong
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
William Shakespeare
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
William Boyd
You are now to study Botany; here the objects about which you are to learn, will be placed before you, to see, to touch, and to smell. Thus three of your senses will be called upon to aid the memory and understanding ; and as flowers are objects of much beauty and interest, your imagination also may be gratified.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.
Big Sean
If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
Umberto Eco
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
Alexander Fraser Tytler