Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Quotes

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

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• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
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• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
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• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
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• I think human nature is eternal and constant.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Nature
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• He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Humanity
  • Stupid

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
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• BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Great
  • Guy
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• If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • People
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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
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• Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • America
  • Rest
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• Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Firsts
  • Birthday
  • Royalty

• Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • Sad

• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Focus

• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • God
  • Men
  • Feeling

• The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

  

  William Farr
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Importance

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Spirit
  • Disaster