Charles Willeford Quotes
Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.Charles Willeford
Quotes to Explore
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
Kate Chopin -
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
Viktor Orban -
As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
Victoria Justice -
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
Samantha Harvey -
We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
Nancy Gibbs -
I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce -
When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
Saint Ignatius -
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine -
If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
Malcolm McDowell -
I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
Rachel Boston -
I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.
Samantha Bond
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I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.
Eddie Redmayne -
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
K. Flay -
I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
Carine Roitfeld -
We each have the kind of children we deserve.
Nachman of Breslov -
Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.
Chuck Klosterman -
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable forceā¦this is my religion of optimism.
Helen Keller -
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
William Harvey -
Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer.
Charles Willeford