The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 83
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.
Norman Jewison
Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.
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Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.
Jacques Vallee
Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.
Vera John-Steiner
An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
Jane Seymour
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
Larry King
Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
Neil Young
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
I will endanger your species like an ostrich,
Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!
Busta Rhymes
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
Naomi Oreskes
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
Nicole Krauss
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
Cee Lo Green
Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.
Rubellite Kawena Johnson
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.
Simon Blackburn
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Nothing will work unless you do.
