Rene Dubos Quotes

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

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• When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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  • Love
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• I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Loved
  • Tattoos

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Present

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Realize

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Security

• May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Help

• I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • High
  • Think
  • Where

• I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Fear

• When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Power

• All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Science
  • Sea

• One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.

  

  Ali Fazal

• I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Help

• 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Peace
  • Party

• If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.

  

  David O. Sacks
  • World
  • Financial
  • Destiny

• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Break
  • Disaster

• Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Doctor

• Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Business
  • American
  • Today

• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Destiny
  • Back
  • Remain