March 31, 2012

Quotes by Norman Tebbit

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

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March 28, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Oliver Cromwell

A few honest men are better than numbers.

He who stops being better stops being good.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Top 5 quotes by Jim Jarmusch

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

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March 26, 2012

Quotes by Dave Matthews

How could I have been anyone other than me?

The future is no place to place your better days.

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March 25, 2012

Famous quote by Toller Cranston

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

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March 23, 2012

Nice quote by Avril Lavigne

I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me. I won't wear skanky clothes that show off my booty, my belly or boobs. I have a great body. I could be Britney. I could be better than Britney.

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Colin Powell quotes

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Get mad, then get over it.

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March 22, 2012

Jamie Redknapp quotes

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

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March 20, 2012

Quote by James Broughton

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

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March 15, 2012

Quote by Leon Panetta

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

March 13, 2012

Famous quote by Horace Smith

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Famous quote by Roseanne Barr

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March 10, 2012

Geoffrey Chaucer quotes

Time and tide wait for no man.

Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

People can die of mere imagination.

Love is blind.

March 09, 2012

Quote by Jonathan Carroll

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March 08, 2012

Israel Zangwill quotes

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

New York is the great stone desert.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

March 07, 2012

Michael Ignatieff quotes

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

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Quote by John Henry Cardinal Newman

Quote by Erika Eleniak

He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

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March 05, 2012

Thomas Aquinas quotes

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

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March 04, 2012

Quote by Plotinus

Knowledge has three degrees - opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

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March 03, 2012

Top 5 quotes by Douglas Jerrold

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?

A blessed companion is a book, - a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into our own.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

March 01, 2012

Hermann Weyl quotes

My work has always tried to unite the true with the beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity. 1951.

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

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Famous quote by Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Taste is the feminine of genius.