Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
LaToya Jackson -
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis -
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
Larry Ellison -
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 -
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole -
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
Dan Gertler -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
Ranbir Kapoor -
Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
Victor Pinchuk -
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
Rachel Platten
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver -
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
Hari Kunzru -
I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
Larry Dixon -
Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
Waylon Jennings -
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Irwin Shaw -
The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.
Frederica Mathewes-Green -
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
Vinod Khosla -
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
Dante Alighieri -
Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
'And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?'
Patrick O'Brian