Harold Nicolson Quotes

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Man
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Man
  • You
  • How

• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Wishes

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Tall

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Man
  • Black

• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Change

• One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • History
  • Control

• My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • She
  • Parents
  • Girl

• The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Man
  • Question
  • Human