Lord Byron Quotes

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Love
  • Dress
  • Hat

• Events are not a matter of chance.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Chance
  • Matter
  • Events

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Best

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nice
  • Dumb
  • Grow

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Time
  • Important
  • Real

• I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • God
  • Children
  • She

• The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Political
  • Question

• Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

  

  David Belle
  • Practice

• I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Poet
  • Sword
  • Samurai

• I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Mother
  • Choices
  • Needs

• If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels.

  

  Tad Williams
  • God
  • Mind
  • Real

• I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Safety
  • Camera
  • Behind

• Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our society is culminated, dumbed-down and mass produced, there is a shining jewel in the rise of the indy record stores. Going to a record shop for me is like a little treasure hunt no one can take you on but yourself. It's fun to look around and see the other shoppers too...totally entrenched in their own adventure, anticipating the reward of heart wrenching, soul filling, joy making music that might just be a bin or a flip away.

  

  Elizabeth Cook
  • Music
  • Society
  • Adventure

• It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

  

  Topher Grace
  • College
  • Show
  • Strange

• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Treasure
  • Sages
  • Moralist