Galeazzo Ciano Quotes

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Same
  • Even
  • Though

• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Character
  • You
  • Acting

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

  

  Wang Shi
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Want
  • Responsibility

• Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Moments
  • Inside
  • Cells

• When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Education

• I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Law

• 'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Time
  • War
  • Think

• This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Real
  • Art
  • Reality

• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Compliment

• As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Fathers
  • Orphan