Charles Rennie Mackintosh Quotes
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylistCharles Rennie Mackintosh
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Adam Grant -
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Bayard Taylor -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx -
I love the French horn.
Vanessa Williams -
I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
Carly Fiorina -
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
Vicente del Bosque -
I love being on the road, I love playing.
Ben Harper -
Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre
Ian Bohen
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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
Rachel Holmes -
I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I come across famous people all the time. It's the respect factor I appreciate. They respect me, they respect what I've achieved and the manner I've done it. It's street credibility. They know where I'm coming from, they know my reputation.
Lennox Lewis -
When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
Albert Einstein -
We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
Jane Austen
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
Kate McKinnon -
A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.
Andre Reed -
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
William Ames -
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.
Eugene Delacroix -
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist
Charles Rennie Mackintosh