Owen Wister Quotes
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.Owen Wister
Quotes to Explore
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
Mahershala Ali -
The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
Octavia Spencer -
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West -
I love playing in Germany. I love playing anywhere where people are going to enjoy the music. Germany is especially nice to play.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
Karin Slaughter
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
Natalie Gulbis -
People wanted Bitcoin to live so much, they basically willed it back into existence. That showed me how passionate this community was about it.
Adam Draper -
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Larry Elder -
The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
Imogen Cunningham -
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Vincent Cassel -
If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
Maeve Binchy -
The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
Baba Kalyani -
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.
Vera Brittain -
Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham -
People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren Bennis -
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
Joel Salatin -
Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future...
Nikola Tesla -
You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
Paige Turco -
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
J. Arthur Thomson -
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.
Owen Wister