Ernest Thesiger Quotes
We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.
Ernest Thesiger
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
Felix Baumgartner
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Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.
G. Edward Griffin
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy,' you know? And it's really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.
Marilyn Monroe
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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
Friedrich Schiller
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Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.
Harold B. Lee
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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
Eliphas Levi
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
Mark Levin
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.
Demosthenes
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You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
Edward Charles Ford
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Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.
Jonathan Mayhew
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Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?
Gary DeMar
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We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.
Ernest Thesiger
