Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.Hamilton Wright Mabie
Quotes to Explore
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Felix Adler -
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
Malin Akerman -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner -
I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
Tammy Blanchard -
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
O. R. Melling -
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.
F. Sionil Jose -
I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
Camila Alves -
We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
Wayne Dyer -
People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
Zadie Smith
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch -
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln -
People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
Irwin Thomas -
I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
One more thing: don’t spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!
Gary Gygax -
Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
Samuel Beckett
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Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.
Chuck Palahniuk -
My mother had naturally spiced the pudding with sixpences and threepenny bits, called zacs and trays respectively. Grandpa had collected one of these in the oesophagus. He gave a protracted, strangled gurgle which for a long time we all took to be the beginning of some anecdote.
Clive James -
Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.
Gary Johnson -
Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.
Amity Gaige -
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie