Samuel Johnson Quotes
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.Samuel Johnson
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot -
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah -
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Frances Beinecke -
My father was a lawyer.
Pat Robertson -
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
Gary Zukav -
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye -
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
Val Kilmer -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
Jackie Robinson
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
Yolanda Adams -
I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
Talia Shire -
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Zoe Tapper -
I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.
Bill Nye -
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain -
'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
Nathan Lane -
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson