Carl Linnaeus Quotes

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

Carl Linnaeus

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• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Chinese
  • More

• When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Playing
  • Act

• Folk is bare bones music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Bones
  • Folk

• Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Animal

• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Stop

• The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Tax
  • Invest

• New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going – whether we know it or not, would deny it or not – by the kiss of a stranger.

  

  Jardine Libaire
  • Promise
  • Kiss
  • Stranger

• Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Man
  • Article
  • Healthy Body

• He refuses to let bitterness poison his heart. He chooses instead to believe in the healing power of love.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Believe
  • Poison
  • Refuses

• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Animal

• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

  

  Confucius
  • Wood
  • Rotten
  • Carved

• A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Genuine
  • Crucifies

• Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Difficult
  • Accomplishment
  • Plans

• If you're always telling people why you can't do something, if you parse everything and nitpick, I've got news for you: You're not going anywhere. If you want to make it in this world, learn to say, "sure, no problem." Practice. It's good for you. When is the last time you went on a limb trusting your gut feeling?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Problem
  • Practice
  • Learn

• He knew everything about girls, he knew everything about drugs, and he knew an awful lot about music, and I become interested in all three of those things.

  

  Merck Mercuriadis
  • Music
  • Things
  • Interested

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Fit
  • Physically