Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz -
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn -
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer -
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dan Rather -
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
Oscar Robertson -
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Natalia Makarova
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
Gayle Forman -
A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
Fabrizio Moreira -
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo HIM -
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt -
I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.
Rakul Preet Singh
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Adam Grant -
Fascism is a lie told by bullies.
Ernest Hemingway -
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
George Allen, Sr. -
Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
Fat Joe -
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
Jane Gardam -
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian