L. Neil Smith Quotes
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.L. Neil Smith
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt -
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 -
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus -
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine Albright
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee -
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
Carly Fiorina -
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King -
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham -
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
J. Michael Straczynski -
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
Vanessa Paradis -
We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
D. B. Weiss -
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
Carl Levin -
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
Taylor Swift -
I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. Lang -
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina
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Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
If the Palestinians agree to act soon, we will sit at the negotiating table in order to create a new reality ... . If they do not, Israel will take its fate into its own hands.
Ehud Olmert -
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman -
If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.
L. Neil Smith