Conn Iggulden Quotes
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.Conn Iggulden
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
Zach Braff -
If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
Baba Kalyani -
I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
Sam Hunt -
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
Zach LaVine -
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
Barry Larkin
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
Fatou Bensouda -
Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
Barton Gellman -
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Nancy Werlin -
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
Hans Frank -
We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
Mae Jemison -
Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
Gail Sheehy
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
Park Chan-wook -
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Gabriel Marcel -
No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
Homer -
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Conn Iggulden