Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.Charles Eliot Norton
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
Barry O'Farrell -
People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
Katee Sackhoff -
For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Adam Clayton U2 -
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart -
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West -
Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
M. Stanton Evans -
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
Fernando Botero -
If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
Pablo Sandoval -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
Maidie Norman -
We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
Yani Tseng -
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
Barbra Streisand -
You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
Dan Farmer -
I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.
Harold Pinter -
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
Paris Jackson
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Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen -
At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter of fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.
Pele -
In some sense, not just the Gulf Coast was attacked but America's self-confidence.
Joe Lieberman -
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.
Charles Eliot Norton