A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
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If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist’s assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.
A.J. AYER -
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH -
I want to be better at staying connected.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.
SOGYAL RINPOCHE -
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
BOB BARKER -
All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera.
ADAM FUSS -
I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.
BRETT FAVRE -
We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren’t working; they were just being busted.
BOB HAWKE -
You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.
SATCHEL PAIGE -
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
TACITUS -
It’s funny when you’re a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
ADAM CAROLLA -
Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.
SIMON SINEK -
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston.
AERIEL MIRANDA -
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
BOB BARR