Lord Mountbatten Quotes

This is the war I fear.

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Education
  • Devil

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Different
  • Today
  • Game

• A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • World
  • Know
  • Place

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Limits
  • Only
  • Exceeding

• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Truth
  • History
  • Study

• There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • True
  • High
  • Air

• You know, in Los Angeles, you're constantly in your car, you're sealed up, you're not walking around. Whereas in New York, after a while, all your stuff is kind of public, in one way or the other. I'm not saying either one of those is bad; they're both great for a very specific kind of comedian. And I'm glad that they both exist.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• Could we even pretend the law still existed? Or was it something you made up now, as the occasion required?

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Up
  • Law

• Our effort was fantastic. Unfortunately, our execution wasn't that good.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Effort
  • Fantastic
  • Execution

• Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Courage

• This is the war I fear.

  

  Lord Mountbatten
  • War
  • Fear