Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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• One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Serious
  • Living

• Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • True
  • Brave
  • Self

• I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Job
  • Team

• There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Fight
  • Sides
  • Hatred

• The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Good
  • House

• I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Film
  • New York

• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft

• Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • True
  • Mathematical

• I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Peace
  • Write
  • Right

• It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Future
  • Taxes
  • Posterity

• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Money
  • Learning
  • Meditation

• The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • May
  • Happy
  • Thought

• I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Mother
  • Breakfast
  • Useless

• Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

  

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  • General
  • Useless
  • Maxim