Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) Quotes
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
Rachel Perry -
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
Sam Harris -
We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.
Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down -
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
Ted Morgan -
I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.
Barack Obama -
The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
Tzipi Livni
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
August Strindberg -
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!
Emile Zola -
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
William Hazlitt -
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins -
“Dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”
Wesley J. Smith
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We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
Winifred Holtby -
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs -
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James -
What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.
Brian Tracy -
We have succeeded in observing two laws of the utmost importance, the first is that the increase in the number of heart beats is in quite direct proportion to the sum of the weights lifted to a determined height, the second is that the quantity.
Antoine Lavoisier -
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
Ray Bradbury