Christopher Hitchens Quotes

All this could be part of a plan. But it’s some plan, isn’t it?; With mass destruction, pitiless extermination and annihilation going on all the time.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • You
  • Something
  • Honesty

• I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Done
  • Eating
  • Rolling Stones

• Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Way
  • Ball
  • Runner

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Now
  • Short

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Change
  • Government
  • Style

• I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Like
  • Trading
  • Analyzing

• For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Time
  • Work

• We often say that the M&M Group's destiny is inextricably linked with India's. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Time
  • Destiny

• I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.

  

  John Cena
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Time
  • Important
  • Better

• All this could be part of a plan. But it’s some plan, isn’t it?; With mass destruction, pitiless extermination and annihilation going on all the time.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Time