Competing With Someones Past Quotes & Sayings

The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society. — Richard Henry Lee

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can't stop. — Andy Warhol

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do. — Fredric Brown

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments. — Sylvia Earle

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it. — Thomas Hobbes

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is ... about couscous. — Jim Norton

The railway hit Harrow on the Hill in 1880 and it's been downhill ever since, culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built. As a result, your average shopper has only to spend ten minutes inside to be reduced to a state of quiet desperation. Primark has the right idea, being right by the entrance so that fleeing punters would grab the closest approximation to whatever it was they wanted before running screaming into the night. I'm — Ben Aaronovitch

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when I'm not working. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. — P.T. Barnum