Winifred Holtby Quotes
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
Quotes to Explore
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
Curtis Hanson
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To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,
Peter Buck
R.E.M.
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
John Holt
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.
John Stuart Mill
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
Vivian Campbell
Def Leppard
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Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
Hermann Hesse
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby
