Important Paul Baumer Quotes & Sayings

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve. — Elias Lyman Magoon

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church. — Viktor Schauberger

Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life. — Mallory Jansen

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission? — Emily Horner

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. — Ezra Stiles

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back? — George Orwell

A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today. — Randy Sparks

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. Marriages are nowhere near as rigid - you won't catch any Arsenal fans slipping off to Tottenham for a bit of extra-marital slap and tickle, and though divorce is a possibility (you can just stop going if things get too bad), getting hitched again is out of the question. — Nick Hornby

I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized
on some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:
I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwood
floors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granite
countertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely was
running his life. — John Green

I was not doing what I was told to do. And they sued me for making music "uncharacteristic of Neil Young." That was Geffen Rocords' biggeest mistake, I think. The mistakes all started when I caved and didn't give them Island in the Sun. They wanted me to be commercially successful, and I wanted to be an artist expressing myself-those two goals are not always compatible. I was expecting to have the same artistic freedom that I had at Asylum Records, but Geffen Records wanted me to be a smash, selling millions of records. Most important, Geffen was not a hands-on at Geffen Records. He had other people doing that. It showed. — Neil Young

But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine? — Gaston Leroux

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself. — Hans Zimmer

There's a bit of difference between swimming in shark-infested water because you're trying to retrieve something from the bottom, and staying in just because you're already there and haven't been eaten yet. — Marie Brennan

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them. — Edith Wharton