Edmund Burke Quotes
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.Edmund Burke
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
Caitlin Stasey -
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart Tolle -
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt -
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel -
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary -
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
Jack Whitehall -
If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
Dan Malloy
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
Laura Prepon -
I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
Caitlin Moran -
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Vince Gilligan -
Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
Jack O'Brien -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice -
We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
Vance McAllister
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Cat Stevens' music, voice, and energy made me feel so secure. He sounded different from some of the paternal figures in my life, so gentle and kind.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer -
To attempt to hold fast an instant id doubtful.
Jean Tinguely -
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.
George Washington -
I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home.
Joanna Gaines -
The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.
James B. Stewart -
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke