Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince -
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams -
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch -
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
R. L. Stine -
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane -
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
Barry Marshall
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks -
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain -
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks -
'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Hannibal Buress -
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo -
Death is the beginning of something.
Edith Piaf
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My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.
F. Paul Wilson -
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
Bo Schembechler -
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer -
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Anand Giridharadas -
If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
Alber Elbaz -
The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon