Cecil Rhodes Quotes

So little done, so much to do.

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • World
  • Real
  • King

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Aim

• I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• People never notice anything.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Never
  • Anything

• Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Psalms

• David Bowie had everything. He was intelligent, imaginative, brave, charismatic, cool, sexy and truly inspirational both visually and musically. He created such staggeringly brilliant work, yes, but so much of it and it was so good. There are great people who make great work but who else has left a mark like his? No one like him.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Good
  • Crazy

• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happy
  • Craving
  • Cutoff

• I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• So little done, so much to do.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Done
  • Much