We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern – the lectern.
SARAH PALINThere are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
-
-
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
BILLY CRYSTAL -
Mercy, mercy me, things ain’t what they used to be.
MARVIN GAYE -
It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
JANE AUSTEN -
A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
E. B. WHITE -
No one doubts you after you succeed. Everyone needs proof but you don’t. You know what you’re capable of.
ELEZABETH SYMOND -
Any honest housewife would sort them out, Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
ROBERT GRAVES -
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
JONATHAN SWIFT -
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
EARL NIGHTINGALE -
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK -
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
RICHARD FEYNMAN -
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
NIKOLA TESLA -
I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.
TUPAC SHAKUR -
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
ADDISON MIZNER -
During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson – two people I’ve looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.
FLORENCE PUGH -
That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity
BERYL MARKHAM -
I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
LUCILLE BALL -
Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.
RALPH MARSTON -
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
BILLY ECKSTINE -
Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Fear is finding fault with the future.
AJAHN BRAHM -
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
WATCHMAN NEE -
I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.
DAVID BOWIE -
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY