Nicholas Rodger Quotes
Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.
