Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adela Florence Nicolson

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Red

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Find
  • Watch
  • Addicted

• Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Finding

• As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • You
  • Ups And Downs

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06

  

  Oswald Spengler

• I am an organization freak!

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Organization

• Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Interesting
  • Fighting
  • Excellence

• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Comedy

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• I have no particular inspiration, but I do find Anushka Sharma, Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut amazing.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Amazing
  • Inspiration
  • Anushka Sharma

• I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Up
  • Strong

• I never got a degree; I just started writing.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing

• I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Live
  • Remember

• I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Great

• There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Attitude

• There are teachers' unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Country
  • Quality

• We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.

  

  Kenny Marchant
  • Live
  • Education
  • Proud

• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Running
  • Sin

• Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.

  

  Eliot Coleman
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Quality

• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Quality
  • Sin
  • Gods