Charles Francis Adams Jr. Quotes
More than all, and above all, George Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.Charles Francis Adams Jr.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
Mahershala Ali -
I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
T. J. Miller -
I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
Victoria Justice -
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Larry Hagman -
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson -
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Walter Gropius -
We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
Halima Aden
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
Walter Dean Myers -
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
Nancy Horan -
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
Taylor Swift -
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson -
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson -
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm not counting any chickens.
Jeff Bridges -
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
Eric Reeves -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.
Jack White The White Stripes -
More than all, and above all, George Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.
Charles Francis Adams Jr.