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WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is ...
ELIAS KOTEAS If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything ...
ALICE COOPER So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don'...
CHANTAL SUTHERLAND Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of W...
ADOLF GALLAND If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I a...
TOM HANKS As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the inter...
ALEX MORRISON I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.
BILL MEDLEY There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the governm...
STEVEN SODERBERGH Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rat...
JOY PAGE My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li...
NATASHA LEGGERO There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so...
SCOTT ADAMS I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if ...
DANA PERINO Persevere. There is one dandelion that grows from the crack in the cement. Let that one dandelion be...
MARGARET ARANDA If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
PETER MARSHALL I don't come from a comedy background or a stand-up background, but I think that sometimes there...
DARREN BOYD If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a l...
DAVID STEINBERG I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything t...
MAIRA KALMAN If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
PAUL KANTNER The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foo...
CRAIG BRUCE Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
MATT GROENING If ain't broke, let ME take a crack at it!
DON ZEIGLER You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
A. J. MCLEAN When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
E. W. HOWE You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. T...
LOUIS C. K. As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is r...
JESSE VENTURA As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story d...
NICK DENTON Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole ...
TALULAH RILEY Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't...
NICOLE POLIZZI There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, y...
HEIDI KLUM Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something....
LANE KIRKLAND I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I...
TIESTO If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.
TERRY VENABLES I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
NICK CAVE You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unli...
MARKUS WOLF Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn...
RAHA MOHARRAK if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.
CHARLES MARTIN If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came ...
ROBERT BENCHLEY To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible diffe...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ...
AARON CARTER I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's sh...
JANA KRAMER I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very str...
ECKHART TOLLE If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limi...
ROSS PEROT A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can s...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just...
BRIAN GREENE I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told m...
EDWARD CONLON And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right ou...
TONI BRAXTON I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to r...
HERSCHEL WALKER There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making ...
PHIL SCHILLER What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?
DEYTH BANGER If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens fo...
ERIC DAVIS I heard there was some discussion concerning the Wellsville plant. There is no way we can take that ...
JOE GIGLIO To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu...
ZIG ZIGLAR Anything that you could possibly imagine is already out there in another universe. If you are open t...
RUSSELL ANTHONY GIBBS There are only two guidelines in good sex, don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find...
ALEX COMFORT I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin...
REBECCA MACKINNON Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mothe...
LADY GAGA The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. ...
JAMES DEAN It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do a...
MAYA ANGELOU I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight o...
NAT KING COLE One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
KHLOE KARDASHIAN Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anythi...
EARL LONG We're going to try and prove to the market that you can do a legal coin offering. If the SEC doe...
NAVAL RAVIKANT There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho...
AARON SORKIN Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It does...
DAVID CRONENBERG If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the Briti...
TED CRUZ There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there wi...
AHMED ZEWAIL The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, dir...
STEPHEN HAWKING I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.
PAUL WALKER Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can w...
MERLE HAGGARD Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. Yo...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I think if you have ability and talent in one way, you have it in all ways. I'm not a jack of al...
EVEL KNIEVEL We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of num...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim...
BOB NEWHART If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
DAN FOGLER Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it...
JACK VANCE There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.
DREW BREES I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I...
TODD SOLONDZ Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emul...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emul...
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WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
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