Cecil Rhodes Quotes

To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Business
  • Career

• I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• I miss baseball.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Baseball
  • Miss

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Love

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Political
  • Government

• Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • People
  • Business
  • College

• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Living
  • Google

• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Growing
  • Poetry
  • Wall

• She turned to Gansey.'Blue,' he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, 'I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • She
  • Car
  • Blue

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Changing

• I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Life is a full meal.

  

  Lisa Nicole Carson
  • Life

• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Think
  • Night
  • Reach