Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Story
  • Development

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Long
  • Marriage

• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Struggle

• I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • Thrive

• I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Up
  • Things
  • Maybe

• In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Risk
  • Philosophy
  • Risks

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

  

  Victor Hugo

• I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

  

  Garrett Fort

• The facts of science, as they appeared to him Heraclitus, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Soul
  • Science

• All I can say is we are not promised tomorrow, I know that, you know that. So we gonna make every moment last and just blessed it and appreciate it. (form her speech at Rock in Rio, 2006)

  

  Anastacia
  • Rock
  • Blessed

• Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Die

• 'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Truth
  • History

• There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Soul
  • Inspiration
  • Direction

• In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • May
  • Culture
  • Acceptance

• Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!

  

  Bram Stoker
  • May
  • True
  • Success

• The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

  

  Eustace Budgell
  • Reason
  • Wealth
  • Despise

• If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Failure
  • Victory
  • Delayed