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A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

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• When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Want
  • You

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Service
  • Luxury

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

  

  Q-Tip
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  • Me
  • Talent

• I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Know
  • Active

• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Same
  • Perception

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
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  • Time
  • Good

• Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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  • Words
  • Way

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  

  Weegee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Stop
  • Cutting

• How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Long
  • Grief

• We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

  

  Boomer Esiason
  • People
  • Atoms
  • Entertain

• Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Excess

• A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

  

  Saadi
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