Carl Linnaeus Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

  

  William Shatner
  • Names

• My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parent

• He (George Harrison) told me he really, really admired John Lennon. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Admired
  • John Lennon
  • George Harrison

• My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

  

  Alan Gabriel Barnsley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I never really want to repeat myself, obviously, but even if I do, it's because it is a choice.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Repeats

• I'm not a single mom with two jobs, trying to get by, every day. I have much more support than most women, around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Women
  • Trying

• So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Think
  • Law
  • Fit

• The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Together
  • Fit

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

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Fit
  • Physically