Samuel Johnson Quotes
A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'Samuel Johnson
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson -
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Napoleon Hill -
The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin -
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis -
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold S. Geneen -
None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
Gary Bettman -
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne -
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
Kate Hudson -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
Harpo Marx -
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David -
These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt -
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
Edgar Guest
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
Zig Ziglar -
Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
Patrick Modiano -
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
Lucy Alibar -
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. -
A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
Samuel Johnson