Arthur Wellesley Quotes

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Afraid

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Successful

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Today
  • Poor

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Talent

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Books

• When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Way

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Support
  • Child

• Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Material

• No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Music

• All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Up
  • Lost
  • College

• Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Lost
  • Company
  • Retirement

• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  

  Arthur Wellesley
  • Lost