Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes
The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.Nicholas A. Basbanes
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
Harrison Ford -
There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
Marat Safin -
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono -
But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.
Khaled Hosseini -
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
Henry David Thoreau -
It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.
Margaret Thatcher -
I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
Albert Einstein -
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
John Ashcroft
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In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.
Dmitri Alperovitch -
The folks who get their rent cheap, at the expense of other taxpayers, acquire the notion that society is obligated to take care of them-good Freudianism and that these rooms are a down payment on that obligation.
Frank Chodorov -
Yet it seems extraordinary that the justice of increasing the expectations of the better placed by a billion dollars, say, should turn on whether the prospects of the least favored increase or decrease by a penny.
John Rawls -
When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the 'meaning' of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.
Emil Cioran -
QuiƩn te conoce
Johnny Marr The Smiths -
Clamorous pauperism feastethWhile honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.
Demi Moore -
I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
Jack Roy -
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.
Zazie Beetz -
The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.
Nicholas A. Basbanes