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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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
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
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
Jim Pattison
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.
John McCain
My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to.
Rachel Morrison
Many of my patients respond to stress not by noticing and naming it but by developing migraine headaches or asthma attacks.15 Sandy, a middle-aged visiting nurse, told me she’d felt terrified and lonely as a child, unseen by her alcoholic parents. She dealt with this by becoming deferential to everybody she depended on (including me, her therapist). Whenever her husband made an insensitive remark, she would come down with an asthma attack.
Bessel van der Kolk
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
