Samuel Butler Quotes
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.Samuel Butler
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting -
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer -
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Patrice Motsepe -
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman -
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams -
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
Adam Arkin -
One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
Ban Ki-moon -
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
Federico Fellini -
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
Gary Wright -
I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
Walt Mossberg -
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner -
The simple things in life make me very happy.
Samantha Fox -
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
Ulrich Beck -
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q
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It's almost negligible sleep and insane amounts of plane rides, but I'm doing it. Your body is screaming out to you to not abuse it so much, but I love what I do in my Hindi films as well as with 'Quantico,' and I want to be able to balance both.
Priyanka Chopra -
Be kind to my remains; and oh defend,Against your judgment, your departed friend!
John Dryden -
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass -
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers -
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler