Charles Darwin Quotes

The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!

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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • You
  • Distance
  • Shopping

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Dog
  • Cat

• I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Moving
  • Strategy
  • Israel

• We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Support
  • Training
  • Security

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • God
  • Guy
  • Thought

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Education
  • Child
  • Born

• I don't think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful. I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle.

  

  Barack Obama
  • House

• I’m going to go ahead and go boldlyCuz a little bird told meThat jumping is easyThat falling is funRight up ‘til you hit the sidewalkShivering and stunned.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Bird

• Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.

  

  Margaret Drabble
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Small

• Israel says, quite correctly, that changing Israel’s ethnicity would change the idea of Israel. Well, changing America’s ethnicity changes the idea of America, too. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what Israel does. Is Israel special? For some of us, America is special, too.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Why
  • America

• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

  

  Joan Baez
  • People
  • Relationship

• I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • God
  • Why
  • Wife

• We're kind of an international phenomenon.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Sick
  • Teach
  • Guitar

• The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Sick