Anthony Hope Quotes

Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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• Conforming is not cool.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Cool
  • Conforming

• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Long
  • Business
  • Financial

• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Changes
  • Salvation

• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Ideas
  • Resistance

• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• If you're not mindful about sugar, high sugar intake is just the worst thing for you, but I'm, like, everything in moderation, and that's how I approach it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • High
  • You
  • Worst

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Society
  • Challenge

• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Personality

• The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  

  Hannah More
  • Action

• …the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Future
  • Present

• Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Victory

• It's time for America to get right.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Time
  • America

• All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Famous

• When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Live
  • Desert

• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  

  David Whyte
  • Society
  • Interesting
  • Poetry

• There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • World
  • Category
  • George Mitchell

• 'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Music
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• Most people have wanted me to go back to football. Which is cool, but I think at this point, some things are just more important than football. Football has afforded me an opportunity to take care of my family, to live out a dream, to meet people, to go different places I would never have been able to go. Football has been a huge part of my life. Giving that up isn't an easy thing. But I would rather us live in a country where there is freedom and justice for all than to be catching a touchdown. And like I told my wife, the America that I don't want to live in, is Charlottesville.

  

  Anquan Boldin
  • Important
  • Football
  • Go Back

• Boys will be boys—And even that ... wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

  

  Anthony Hope