Lewis Carroll Quotes

The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Creation
  • Lives

• There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Weekend
  • Ranch

• 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Different
  • Control
  • Reading

• That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Way
  • Heroic

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Good
  • True

• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Situation

• Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Power
  • Political
  • Religion

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one,In Summer's castaway is strangely clad

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Simple
  • Summer
  • Autumn

• The news had stirred him strangely. He listened for bulletins on the radio, which he had seldom turned on after finding that its basic function was advertising things for sale.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • World
  • Art

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  

  Jamelia
  • Up
  • Work

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Confidence
  • Green
  • Blue

• It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • War
  • Stop

• And thought the nation ne'er would thriveTill all the whores were burnt alive.

  

  Matthew Prior

• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Women
  • True
  • Strong

• I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People

• Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Wonder

• The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Animal
  • Letters
  • Definition