Benjamin Franklin Quotes
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. … I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.Benjamin Franklin
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
C. J. Mahaney -
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Ted Cruz -
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan -
You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
Francesca Annis -
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
Wendy Kopp -
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith -
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
Zig Ziglar -
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray -
Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
Safra A. Catz -
If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
Pardis Sabeti
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
Nadia Comaneci -
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo -
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
Camryn Manheim -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
Larry MacPhail -
When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
Phoebe Cates -
You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.
Lee Trevino -
Trump called me a 'nasty guy' on the phone, and some of his surrogates called me 'obsessed' and biased on TV.
David Fahrenthold -
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. … I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin