That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
BOYD NORTON -
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONES -
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.
BRUCE WILLIS -
The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.
HANNAH PEARL -
My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
BINDI IRWIN -
I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.
VIRAT KOHLI -
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman.
BENAZIR BHUTTO -
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
KARL POPPER -
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.
BARBARA EHRENREICH -
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
ANDRE MAUROIS -
There is freedom in letting go.
ANAND THAKUR -
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that’s it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I’d done something.
BILL MURRAY -
My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
LARRY BIRD -
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
JAMES WATSON -
And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
ADRIEN-MARIE LEGENDRE