Anatole France Quotes
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
Gabrielle Reece -
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Gary Hamel -
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster -
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Walter Gropius -
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk -
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
Garth Stein -
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett -
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling -
Our overriding interest throughout these past few years has been to encourage a government that legitimately reflects the will of the Egyptian people, and recognizes true democracy as requiring a respect for minority rights and the rule of law, freedom of speech and assembly, and a strong civil society.
Barack Obama -
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Yukio Mishima
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Elbert Hubbard -
Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren -
Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
Arthur Balfour -
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce -
The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
Leonardo da Vinci -
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Bill Paxton
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
Laurence Housman -
As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
Nicole Kidman -
I'm happier than a pig eating bacon!' Count Olaf cried. 'I'm tickled pinker than a sun-burned Caucasian! I'm in higher spirits than a brand-new graveyard! I'm so happy-go-lucky that lucky and happy people are going to beat me with sticks out of pure, unbridled jealousy!
Daniel Handler -
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.
Mother Teresa -
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France