Harriet Martineau Quotes
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.Harriet Martineau
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine -
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner -
Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
Madeline Zima -
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
Karen Mills
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Paris Hilton -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
Camille Paglia -
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
Ziggy Marley -
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
Eddie McClintock -
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin -
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Dan Shechtman -
Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
Patrick Lencioni -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
I'm not interested in disposable music.
Taraji P. Henson
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I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
Alice Sebold -
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
J. D. Greear -
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
Dwight L. Moody -
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
Ogden Nash -
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
William Blackstone -
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Harriet Martineau