William Mathews Quotes
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
William Mathews
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry
America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen
Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
Gary Lineker
I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
Fernando Torres
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Zaha Hadid
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
Fidel Castro
I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
Ram Charan
Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
Frances McDormand
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Orrin Hatch
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
Daniel Craig
Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
Rachel Zoe
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
Warren Farrell
She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
Rain
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
Xi Jinping
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
John Irving
Stonewall Jackson was master of all he surveyed. Two Union forces were withdrawing from his front. There was a certain beautiful symmetry to it. The campaign, which started with a single enemy army pursuing Jackson southward through the valley, would end with two beaten Union armies withdrawing from him in a northerly direction. A week later, Jackson advised his mapmaker, Hotchkiss, to 'never take counsel of your fears.' A person who followed such advice would be doomed to a short life.
S. C. Gwynne
Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
Rachael Taylor
Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
William Mathews