William Osler Quotes

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

William Osler

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Succeed

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• 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

• Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Play
  • Intent

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

  

  Banksy
  • American
  • Found
  • Males

• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Important
  • Listening

• Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Mind

• Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

  

  William Osler
  • Mind
  • Library
  • Weakness