George W. Sears Quotes

When the mountain streams are frozen and the Nor'land winds are out; when the winter winds are drifting the bitter sleet and snow; when winter rains are making out-of-door life unendurable; when season, weather and law combine to make it "close time" for beast, bird and man, it is well that a few congenial spirits should, at some favorite trysting place, gather around the glowing stove and exchange yarns, opinions and experiences.

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• I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Action

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Very
  • Our
  • Self-Awareness

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Up
  • Know
  • Mindset

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Equality
  • Discrimination

• You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Change
  • Organization

• But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

  

  Nathan Lane

• I think because I felt so sad I had to bring out my feelings, and try to create music that would make me and all my friends feel better.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Sad

• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • May
  • Truth
  • Selfish

• La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Shopping

• I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

  

  Alden W. Clausen
  • Time
  • Planning
  • Spend

• I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Black
  • Never
  • How

• I think, at the end of the day, Stockhouse will have free services supported by advertising, but we'll also have a number of subscription services.

  

  Jeff Berwick
  • Free

• We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Women
  • Feels
  • Expected

• When the mountain streams are frozen and the Nor'land winds are out; when the winter winds are drifting the bitter sleet and snow; when winter rains are making out-of-door life unendurable; when season, weather and law combine to make it "close time" for beast, bird and man, it is well that a few congenial spirits should, at some favorite trysting place, gather around the glowing stove and exchange yarns, opinions and experiences.

  

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