Edmund Burke Quotes
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.Edmund Burke
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen -
I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
Sally Mann -
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama -
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
Jack Youngblood -
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
Abu Bakr -
I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
Taya Kyle -
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Sally Jewell -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Harold E. Varmus
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore -
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman -
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
Abbie Cornish -
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
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You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.
Ahmed Chalabi -
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
Martha Stewart -
No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American.
Ben Cardin -
The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.
Charles Scott Sherrington -
the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.
N. T. Wright -
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke