Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.Charles Caleb Colton
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
Orlando Bloom -
I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
Damien Rice
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
R. Kelly -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher -
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim -
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus -
My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
Hansika Motwani -
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander -
If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
Kate Baldwin -
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
F. Sionil Jose
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To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher -
I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.
Maz Jobrani -
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
Sarah Dessen -
He was one of thousands of people who scraped by filtering reality through their ideology and then yelling really loudly at the internet.
Hank Green -
Dad wasn’t there much cos he had three or four jobs. First he was away at sea, later on he worked as an insurance salesman in the day and on a building site in the evening.
Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood -
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Charles Caleb Colton