William Standish Knowles Quotes
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.William Standish Knowles
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje -
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz -
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
Ophelia Lovibond -
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford -
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham -
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
Samuel Adams -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble -
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown -
I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson -
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver -
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
Gary Barlow Take That -
You want to win the games, to win trophies.
Eden Hazard
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I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.
Sam Worthington -
Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.
Kimberly Bryant -
My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
Danny Aiello -
I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
Sally Schneider -
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles