Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.Henry David Thoreau
Quotes to Explore
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. Philip Randolph -
There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
Dana Brunetti -
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan -
When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Wayne Gretzky -
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C. S. Lewis -
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Fernando Botero -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Wellington Mara -
I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian Mckellen -
After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
Zhang Ziyi -
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Andrea Bocelli -
I make my home in Tulsa.
Frank Abagnale -
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
John Harvey Kellogg -
Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".
Hank Williams -
If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.
Marianne Williamson -
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.
Henry David Thoreau