William Pitt Quotes

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

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• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Pretty
  • Point
  • Materials

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Future
  • Past

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Myself

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Training

• Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different.

  

  Chace Crawford
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles especially strong. Job growth has bolstered household income, and lower energy prices have left consumers with more to spend on other goods and services.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Energy

• The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Country
  • Thought

• Algunos, adelantándose a todos, van ganando el desierto.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • People
  • Food
  • Space

• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

  

  William Pitt
  • Confidence
  • Growth
  • Bosom