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Margaret Atwood9 quotes
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985This above all, to refuse to be a victim. — Margaret Atwood · 1972When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985All 9 quotes →John Kenneth Galbraith6 quotes
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1977It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Trickle-down theory—the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1992These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1955William Osler4 quotes
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. — William Osler · 1904The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. — William Osler · 1902The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases. — William Osler · 1950Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. — William Osler · 1925John McCrae2 quotes
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. — John McCrae · 1915To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. — John McCrae · 1915Alex Trebek1 quote
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn’t bother me in the least. — Alex Trebek · 2020Charlotte Whitton1 quote
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. — Charlotte Whitton · 1963Drake1 quote
You only live once, that's the motto nigga YOLO — Drake · 2011Glenn Gould1 quote
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. — Glenn Gould · 1982Gordon Lightfoot1 quote
Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot · 1976Hugh Keough1 quote
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet. — Hugh Keough · 1919Jim Carrey1 quote
I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey · 2014John Philpot Curran1 quote
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. — John Philpot Curran · 1816Margaret Millar1 quote
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. — Margaret Millar · 1942Neil Young1 quote
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away. — Neil Young · 1978Peter John Gzowski1 quote
We need spring. We need it desperately and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us. — Peter John Gzowski · 1979Stephen Leacock1 quote
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. — Stephen Leacock · 1924Wayne Gretzky1 quote
100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net. — Wayne Gretzky · 1983