Felix de Weldon quote: "Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience."

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had ...
FELIX DE WELDON

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
FELIX DE WELDON

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing,...
FAY WELDON

Men are irrelevant.
FAY WELDON

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
FAY WELDON

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
FAY WELDON

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
FAY WELDON

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
FAY WELDON

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
FAY WELDON

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
FAY WELDON

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you pract...
FAY WELDON

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
FAY WELDON

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...
FAY WELDON

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arro...
FAY WELDON

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the trut...
CURT WELDON

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have chi...
FAY WELDON

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which...
FAY WELDON

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijac...
CURT WELDON

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is...
CURT WELDON

Food. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
FAY WELDON

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have...
FAY WELDON

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and ...
FAY WELDON

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
FAY WELDON

Explosion after explosion followed. One looked for the buildings to topple over, to see passersby cl...
WELDON KEES

What that did was take a lot of money from black theaters. It really hurt the black theater.
CHARLES WELDON

For the 9/11 commission to say that this did not exist is just absolutely outrageous. It's a total d...
CURT WELDON

I will continue to push for a full accounting of the historical record so that we may preclude these...
CURT WELDON

There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what and where.
CURT WELDON

The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit dis...
CURT WELDON

They have maintained there is no information about Able Danger or the data mining work. They could n...
CURT WELDON

It's no secret that we have a strong defense. Biddle (senior Jacob) was a force on the field tonight...
WELDON NELMS

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass...
CURT WELDON

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, t...
CURT WELDON

Detective Comic #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pis...
GLEN WELDON

The year 2005 was a solid one for Johnson and Johnson, despite significant challenges.
WILLIAM WELDON

I've never had a detailed discussion about it with him, but he remembered the meeting,
CURT WELDON

It could help assess whether there are people trapped alive in attics or upper floors, ... Once you'...
CURT WELDON

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
FAY WELDON

As a people, we have a way of making light of things like that. If you were uptight about everything...
CHARLES WELDON

We believe it originated in Africa because frogs here have a local resistance to the fungus, and we ...
CHE WELDON

Amphibians are right in the center of the food chain. They keep insect numbers down and serve as foo...
CHE WELDON

The symptoms are neurological and seem to affect their behavior.
CHE WELDON

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside sc...
FAY WELDON

What we?re doing is cutting through the red tape. We are not FEMA, we are not Homeland Security, we?...
CURT WELDON

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens
FAY WELDON

Frogs here for the most part are resistant to it. Some do succumb to it, but we have not witnessed t...
CHE WELDON

Frogs here for the most part are resistant to it. Some do succumb to it but we have not witnessed th...
CHE WELDON

No. That's an excuse really. It's what I do. It's a continuum.
FAY WELDON

If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest ne...
GLEN WELDON

I always had trouble with the Bruce Wayne in the comic book," Burton said. "I mean, if this guy is s...
GLEN WELDON

When Jumbo Poker began in 2003, the poker frenzy was just beginning. Back then when Jumbo Poker hit,...
WELDON RUSSELL

[Last month, Anthony Lane, former boy newspaper editor, a literary scholar, and now dean of American...
WELDON KEES

We are a second half team. We have some great coaches that are able to see what changes we need to m...
WELDON NELMS

We will always have people that think that stats are everything. Truth is, our defense and special t...
WELDON NELMS

It was nice to be able to get some of the younger guys in tonight. Our defense seemed to be on the f...
WELDON NELMS

We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they...
WELDON NELMS

We were a little slow getting going. Normally you prepare for a Friday night game, so it was a littl...
WELDON NELMS

They definitely surprised us with that start. It put us in a bad situation and only 15 seconds had t...
WELDON NELMS

I am not sure I have my finger on the pulse of this team yet. I, as well as the rest of the coaching...
WELDON NELMS

When it comes down to the end, there's no jitters, no butterflies.
JOHN WELDON

When these kinds of things happen it send chills down the backs of American business people, who won...
CURT WELDON

Steve Hadley looked at the chart and said, Congressman, where did you get that chart from?
CURT WELDON

Between pep rallies and the large crowds, it can be hard to keep a youngster focused. But when the g...
WELDON NELMS

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are sati...
FAY WELDON

It's not just the cost involved, ... But the potential impact to men and women in uniform is impossi...
CURT WELDON

The world has accepted hard-core fans' argument. Batman, this children's character who dresses up in...
GLEN WELDON

Deaths and injuries from the holiday celebrations had exceeded the wildest prophecies, he noticed,
WELDON KEES

The theaters are . . . a business. If August's plays weren't out there for all these theaters to jum...
CHARLES WELDON

I don't remember talking about current events with August. He would always talk about what he was wr...
CHARLES WELDON

I happen to be one of the actors that was working at that time, which was during Black History Month...
CHARLES WELDON

I think the best audiences are audiences that are mixed.
CHARLES WELDON

I am not sure I have my finger on the pulse of this team yet, ... I, as well as the rest of the coac...
JOHN WELDON

He was basically telling me that I was working way too hard. He was telling me, calm down.
CHARLES WELDON

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same informat...
CURT WELDON

I ran upstairs, loving, weeping. I will run downstairs, unloving, not weeping.
FAY WELDON

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Fl...
CURT WELDON

Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. Tha...
FAY WELDON

The Sept. 11 commission's statement that it does not believe a secret military intelligence unit dis...
CURT WELDON

It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program just didn't exist.
CURT WELDON

It's absolutely unbelievable that a commission would say this program just didn't exist,
CURT WELDON

The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing th...
CURT WELDON

There is an attack under way. You can basically say we are at war,
CURT WELDON

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest o...
CURT WELDON

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, mar...
FAY WELDON

We present for you this evening a movie of death.
WELDON KEES

The IGERT program has not only opened my eyes to the many scientific possibilities of the integratio...
DAVE WELDON

If you start allowing all these labs all over the place to create human clones, then it's only a mat...
DAVE WELDON

If this issue is not resolved by January, we need to have I think a more permanent resolution. Once ...
DAVE WELDON

It's not like him. I'm surprised.
DAVE WELDON

I can't imagine drastic reductions. The president made this one of his priorities. Not only will som...
DAVE WELDON

This is a time for leadership.
DAVE WELDON

This is a time for leadership. I have yet to see any. I'm not particularly optimistic.
DAVE WELDON

What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, ...
WELDON KEES

What all people who are engaged in positions of responsibility at all companies need to understand i...
MARK WELDON

That's three companies on the AX (alternative) market, small companies with small market cap that ar...
MARK WELDON

We strongly believe that our union with Guidant is the only one that can deliver and create lasting ...
WILLIAM WELDON

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Consti...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett Schoo...
FELIX ROHATYN

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private i...
FELIX ROHATYN

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Care...
FELIX ROHATYN

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that deat...
FELIX ROHATYN

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
FELIX ROHATYN

Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with ...
FELIX ROHATYN

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
FELIX ROHATYN

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absor...
FELIX MENDELSSOHN

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose an...
FELIX KLEIN

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit...
FELIX KLEIN

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through t...
FELIX KLEIN

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or t...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, th...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder ...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay ther...
FELIX HERNANDEZ

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.
FELIX HERNANDEZ

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquir...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said ab...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fi...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controvers...
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
FELIX FRANKFURTER

I aspire only to silence.
FELIX FENEON

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Ja...
FELIX FENEON

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to...
FELIX BLOCH

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities...
FELIX BLOCH

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the ...
FELIX BLOCH

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
FELIX BLOCH

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in ...
FELIX BLOCH

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about ...
FELIX BLOCH

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a t...
FELIX BLOCH

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by ...
FELIX BLOCH

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast ...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time c...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the av...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather d...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I like to challenge myself.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through y...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

They call me Fearless Felix.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful pla...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the wor...
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

I'm retired from the daredevil business.
FELIX BAUMGARTNER

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to exist...
FELIX ADLER

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today...
FELIX ADLER

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of m...
FELIX ADLER

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public ass...
FELIX ADLER

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...
FELIX ADLER

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
FELIX ADLER

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns ther...
FELIX ADLER

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
FELIX ADLER

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealt...
FELIX ADLER

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
FELIX ADLER

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
FELIX ADLER

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of ...
FELIX ADLER

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement...
FELIX ADLER

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
FELIX ADLER

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...
FELIX ADLER

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
FELIX ADLER

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, an...
FELIX ADLER

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

Felix de Weldon

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