George Peele Quotes

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

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• One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Dirty

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Right
  • Difference
  • Between

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Teenager
  • Rebellious

• A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Art
  • Path
  • Eating

• You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Confidence

• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Thought

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  

  Edmund Waller

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Great
  • Switzerland

• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Great
  • America

• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  

  George Peele
  • Faith
  • Beauty
  • Flowers