George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Quotes

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

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• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

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• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  

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• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

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• I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Up
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• When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
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• I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Size

• I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
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• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
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  • Babysitting

• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • School
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• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Question
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• God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • God

• I called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter.  A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• A Loaf holds many grains of corn And many myriad drops the Sea: So is God's Oneness Multitude And that great Multitude are we.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Great
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• Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Experience
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• I was discovered on YouTube and I think I was detrimental to my own career.

  

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• I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

  Colson Whitehead
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• Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Film

• Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity

• There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

  

  Don McLean
  • Happy

• I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Nightmare

• A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

  

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
  • Time
  • Memory
  • Repeating