Alfred the Great Quotes
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[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.
Viola Davis
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
Troy Polamalu
Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith
What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
W. Edwards Deming
Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.
William S. Burroughs
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
Beverley Nichols
Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.
Catherine Deneuve
