Isaac D'Israeli Quotes
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
Walter Gropius
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
Vera Wang
To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
Rand Paul
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;-on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Matthew Arnold
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
Abigail Padgett
If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.
Mike deGruy
It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.
Charles Hodge
Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.
Napoleon Hill
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli