Gerald of Wales Quotes

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Running

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Stress
  • Natural

• I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Older

• I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Black
  • Start
  • Black-and-white

• The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Power
  • First
  • Contract

• Makeup can help you capture a moment.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Help
  • Moment
  • Makeup

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • English

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Great
  • Reading

• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Fields

• Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

  

  Gerald of Wales
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