Bob Herbert Quotes
The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.Bob Herbert
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
Vanilla Ice -
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes -
Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
Gary Allan -
For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
Haley Joel Osment -
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
Barbet Schroeder -
SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
Maika Monroe
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
Harlan Coben -
Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
Randy Pausch -
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
Fernando Pessoa -
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Frederick Soddy -
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
Laurence Tribe -
I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
David Morrissey
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I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.
Cherie Blair -
We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
Marshall Goldsmith -
If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.
Mark Bradford -
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
Max Weber -
What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
Charles Reade -
Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.
George Packer
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
Oswald Chambers -
The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
Christopher Monckton -
I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.
Edgar Saltus -
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
Richard Adams -
The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.
Bob Herbert