Daniel Defoe Quotes

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Like
  • Television
  • Plays

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • You
  • Looking
  • Used

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Want
  • Me
  • Talk

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Looking
  • Shock

• Some things you're not letting happen right now because the timing isn't perfect for you. Some you're not letting happen because you are very aware of where you are. But all things, as they are happening, are happening in perfect order. And if you will relax and begin saying, "Everything in its perfect time. Everything is unfolding. And I'm enjoying where I am now, in relationship to where I'm going. Content where I am, and eager for more," that is the perfect vibrational stance.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Perfect
  • Enjoy
  • Order

• Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Why
  • She
  • True

• Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Happens
  • Necessity

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond