Bernard Moitessier Quotes
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.Bernard Moitessier
Quotes to Explore
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew -
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci -
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
F. Sionil Jose -
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne -
I don't like to talk about myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
Ieva Laguna -
People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
Barack Obama -
Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
Edmund Hillary -
The Bible … does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century.
Sam Harris -
Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home
Taylor Swift -
Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber
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For fast acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin -
One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
Clayton Christensen -
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski -
For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
The Weeknd -
All revolutions are violent revolutions.
Paul Watson -
Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
Joe R. Lansdale
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But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
Vladimir Lenin -
The atmosphere in the school lunchroom is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.
Edgar Friedenberg -
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Orville Wright -
The whole paper is like a book, Tales From the Dark Side or something.
Allen Iverson -
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
Bernard Moitessier