William Robertson Nicoll Quotes

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

William Robertson Nicoll

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Party
  • Violence
  • Deep

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Father
  • Think
  • Myself

• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Myself

• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Man
  • Action

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Great
  • Trying

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Always

• I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Strong

• A million years went by quick.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Years
  • Million
  • Quick

• The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Professional

• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

  

  Andre Aciman

• I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

  

  Elena Anaya
  • Up
  • Growing

• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Past

• And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go Downtown, things'll be great when you're Downtown, don't wait a minute more Downtown, everything's waiting for you

  

  Petula Clark
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Care

• Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Stars
  • Sees

• The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

  

  William Robertson Nicoll
  • Past
  • Tragedy
  • Forgotten