Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes

For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Doing
  • Very
  • Well

• Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Science
  • Criticism
  • Myths

• Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • You
  • Woman
  • Show

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Labor

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry
  • Wishes

• Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • Power
  • Help

• I was asked to speak at a bar association, because there's an upswing on college applications - in general and for Latinos - because of 'L.A. Law.' I went to a couple of functions, and I just felt an energy: It was, you're doing a good job, but do you realize how important it is?

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Important
  • Job

• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Past
  • Light

• Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?

  

  Alan Gorrie
  • Up

• To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • City

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • People

• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • German

• Eventually, I realized that I would not have a life until I buckled down. Once I did, I auditioned for Juilliard - and that changed everything.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • Life

• I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.

  

  Jodie Whittaker
  • Fear

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments-of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue-are complete sceptics in religion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• ‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wisdom
  • Body
  • Humans

• When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • People
  • Together
  • Success

• For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Wisdom
  • Fate
  • Gods