Brian Morton Quotes
He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.Brian Morton
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
W. Bruce Cameron -
GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
Jack Dangermond -
'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
Patrick Lussier -
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
Saint Bernard -
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
Ian Goldin
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
Kabir Bedi -
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
Tammy Baldwin -
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
Barry White -
A mom has to be ready for anything.
Lara Spencer -
I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
Kate Mara -
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
Oscar Wilde
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
E. O. Wilson -
We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
Arthur C. Clarke -
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie -
Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
Dash Mihok -
Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
Lucy Dacus
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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones -
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
Portia de Rossi -
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Joseph Brodsky -
I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
Rachel Stevens -
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
Thomas Sowell -
He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.
Brian Morton