David Swing Quotes

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

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• I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Kids
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Love
  • Game
  • Day-Out

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Men
  • Black
  • California

• Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Future
  • Progress

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Generations
  • Americans
  • Union

• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Men
  • Prayer

• I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

  

  John Musker
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Term

• Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

  

  Plato
  • Dead
  • Battle
  • Enjoy Life

• Be a voice not an echo.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Voice
  • Echo

• Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learning
  • Questioning
  • Requisite

• If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • War
  • Reason
  • Greater

• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Picture

• Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Everyday

• Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

  

  David Swing
  • Condition
  • Contrast
  • Becomes