Conn Iggulden Quotes
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian -
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt -
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
Rae Carson -
Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth -
The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
Yelena Baturina
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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
Jack Nicklaus -
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
Zoe Wanamaker -
Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
Charles Dickens -
Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
Aristotle Onassis -
It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.
Jaycie Phelps
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
Alex Berenson -
I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
Adriana Lima -
Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
Keegan Bradley -
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
Billy Crudup -
The kitchen is the heart of the house.
Alvaro Enrigue -
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
Alastair Campbell
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My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.
Michael Madigan -
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
Charles de Lint -
It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The emotion is the execution of a very complex program of actions. Some actions that are actually movements, like movement that you can do, change your face for example, in fear, or movements that are internal, that happen in your heart or in your gut, and movements that are actually not muscular movements, but rather, releases of molecules.
Antonio Damasio -
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.
John Chamberlain -
Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
Conn Iggulden