Quotes to Stay Determined · Page 167

Fierce words to fuel your drive and remind you nothing can stop you.

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“Leadership requires energy. It requires stamina. It requires resilience. It requires everything you have and then some.”

— William H. McRaven

“Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Of course, there are many things to be said for the afternoon performance, chief among them being that it cuts in so generously on one's work.”

— Dorothy Parker

“If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care.”

— Dorothy Parker

“There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.”

— Dorothy Parker

“This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were.”

— Dorothy Parker

“The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“Heaven is far, earth is most precious, but it is with heaven that you multiply your goods, and all foreign lands breathe under it.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“The warrior is unique, he alone is the equal of many; Utu is unique, he alone is the equal of many.”

— Instructions of Shuruppak

“What matters it, that, all around, Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie, If but within our bosom's bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky, Warm with ten thousand mingled rays Of…”

— Emily Brontë

“Bad men and poisonous plants are sometimes of superlative use in skilful hands.”

— Horace Walpole

“To talk of the weather was once a matter of ridicule. But that soon went out; for the weather is, in fact, so important in this changeable climate, that our health and bread…”

— Horace Walpole

“I have sometimes thought that a squire and a vestry were a king and republic in miniature. The vestry is as tyrannic, in its way, as the squire in his.”

— Horace Walpole

“Barking dogs never bite. The danger in France arose from silent and instantaneous action. They said nothing, and did every thing—ours say every thing, and will do nothing.”

— Horace Walpole

“Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.”

— Anthony Burgess

“The great gift of the southern lands to our civilisation is the simple right to sit at an outside cafe table and look at things.”

— Anthony Burgess

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

— Anthony Burgess

“A mechanical description of the act tells us nothing, any more than a scientifically accurate account of mastication will convey the flavour of roast duck.”

— Anthony Burgess

“It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.”

— David Hume

“In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular…”

— David Hume

“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit…”

— David Hume

“It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and…”

— David Hume

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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