Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.Edward Hallett Carr
Quotes to Explore
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
Ingmar Bergman -
I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
Dakota Blue Richards -
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian -
For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
Maya Angelou -
I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.
Joseph Bruchac -
I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
Leslie Caron -
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis -
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
Marc Benioff
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There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Eleanor Holmes Norton -
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
H. P. Blavatsky -
The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.
F. B. Meyer -
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.
Stephen Ambrose -
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin
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If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.
Edward Hallett Carr