William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
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• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
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• In 1946, when I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.

  

  Yves Klein
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• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
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• What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
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  • Wall
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• p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16

  

  Charles Edward Merriam

• Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.

  

  Coventry Patmore
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• As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

  

  Aristotle
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• A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

  

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
  • Men
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  • Gentility