George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Quotes

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

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• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

  

  Eli Manning
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• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  

  Virender Sehwag
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• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  

  Confucius
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• Leave us to our free election.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

  

  Wallace Stegner
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• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  

  William Tyndale
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• It is far more important to know myself and take care of myself than it is to look good to others.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Take Care

• I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.

  

  Sara Blakely
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• True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

  

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  • Wit
  • Described
  • Everlasting