Favourite Quotes - Page 28

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Women, Sacrifice

Circle (1921) act 3

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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Henrik Tikkanen

Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Frank Wilczek

Inspirational, Work, Mistake

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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

St. Catherine of Siena

Inspiration, Men, Hands

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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Edward Jenner

Science, Discovery, Vaccines

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I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

Michael Scott

Children, Book, Writing

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Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.

Adolf Hitler

Nature, Children, Sacrifice

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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

Your Side, People, Intelligence

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Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one.

Rachel Zoe

Fashion, Children, Looks

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Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Eduardo Galeano

Dream, Media, Hands

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I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27.

Clement Attlee

Clever, Numbers, Chinese

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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

John Wanamaker

Money, Business, Marketing

"Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph Washington Sockman

Life, Courage, Bullying

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Faith, Angel, Vision

Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Motivational, Change

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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For mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

William Wordsworth

Love, Life, Stars

William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Simon Cameron

Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nessen

Inspirational, Motivational, Trust

Ron Nessen (2011). “Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House”, p.178, Wesleyan University Press

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I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

Rob Delaney

Relationship, Snacks, Laughing

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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Bill Mauldin

Funny, Motivation, Science

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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Garry Shandling

Friendship, Love You, Funny Friend

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There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Harold Stephens

Crazy, Differences, Worry

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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Edwin Schlossberg

Writing, Caring, Thinking

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Funny, Money, Humorous

Jackie Mason (1983). “Jackie Mason's America”, Lyle Stuart

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