Quotes with sure-thing

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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Toni Morrison What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Drayton What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • A. W. Tozer What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Barry Eisler What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bennet Omalu What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bruno Mars What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Beth Brooke What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • Richard Owen Cambridge What is the worth of any thing,
    But for the happiness 'twill bring?
    Source: Learning 23
    Richard Owen Cambridge
    British poet (1717 - 1802)
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  • Barbara Kruger What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht What rapture, oh, it is to know
    A good thing when you see it
    And having seen a good thing, oh,
    What rapture 'tis to flee it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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