Winfield Scott Quotes

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• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Dying

• I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • World
  • Busy
  • Weep

• Honesty is very sexy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Honesty
  • Honesty Is

• China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Up
  • Desire
  • Friendship

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Chess

• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Long

• 'you don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow'

  

  Kid Cudi

• God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

  

  Ernest Legouve
  • God
  • Love
  • Pleasure

• I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • You
  • Woman
  • Design

• I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Great
  • Character

• Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Option

• Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Brave
  • Blood
  • Veteran