Winfield Scott Quotes

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Reputation
  • Washington
  • Some

• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Religion
  • Modernity

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • America
  • Political
  • Strong

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condiingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpusalteriusque animans animantis vivere leto!Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas, optima matrum,terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevovulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum,nec, nisi perdideris alium, placare voraciset male morati poteris ieiunia ventris!

  

  Ovid

• A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Why
  • Dog

• Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Peace

• Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Great
  • Guilty

• I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Up

• There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.

  

  Anderson Varejao
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

  

  Charlotte Rampling

• By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Done
  • Kids

• During the day, I'm constantly reapplying hand cream. My grandma used to do it all the time, so maybe I got it from her.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Grandma

• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Fire

• Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Tired

• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Past

• The relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Respect

• Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Men
  • Light
  • Wells