Amby Burfoot Quotes

Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Time
  • Action
  • Wish

• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

  

  Walter Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

  

  Raekwon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Heart

• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Long
  • Blind
  • Cells

• I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Where

• I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Never

• I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Army
  • Chicago
  • Special

• Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

  

  David Cameron
  • Long
  • Single

• well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Thinking
  • Wish
  • Obvious

• Be embraced, ye millions!This kiss is for the whole world!Brothers, above the arch of starsA loving Father surely dwells.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • World
  • Father
  • Kiss

• Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Dwelling
  • Properly
  • Interior

• Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Long
  • Running
  • Wish