Alastair Reynolds Quotes

There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.

Alastair Reynolds

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Confidence
  • Create
  • Greed

• I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Real
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Slow

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Present
  • Confidence
  • Enjoy

• If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Business
  • Career
  • Strong

• If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Good
  • Great
  • Best

• When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Basketball

• We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Confidence
  • Need
  • Economy

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Death
  • Society

• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Age
  • Daily

• I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.

  

  Ledisi

• I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That's where I really started playing all sports, and that's why I'm a big advocate for the work they do.

  

  Frank Thomas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

  

  James Frey
  • Work
  • Freedom

• There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Confidence
  • Fate