William Brighty Rands Quotes

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

William Brighty Rands

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• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Live
  • Money
  • Free

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Faith
  • Path

• Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, you can go crazy too.Ooh, ooh, ooh, I wanna go crazy, I wanna go crazy with you.Everybody sayin' 'Woah, how sweet it is. Woah.'Yeah, it felt good on my lips.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Good
  • Crazy
  • Sweet

• And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing...It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

  

  David Gest

• I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

  

  Jason Aaron

• I've been a job creator. I've worked in the economy myself.

  

  Jeff Greene
  • Job

• I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

  

  Kenneth Branagh

• The tabloids so easily throw people under the bus for a one-day sensation on the newsstand but sadly don't care about the long-term damage it does to those involved.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Long

• There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Causes
  • Kill

• It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

  

  T. H. White
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Easy

• A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Children
  • Happy

• At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Believes
  • Opposite

• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Lying

• You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

  

  William Brighty Rands
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Dots