Tweezing Chin Quotes & Sayings

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards. — Woodrow Wilson

And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world. — Bill Bryson

To a good approximation, all species are insects. — Robert May

Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it. — Joan Of Arc

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll. — Al Arbour

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is. — Nick Clegg

The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population ... — Charles Ferguson

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue. — Brian Lamb

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands ... [and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Sorry, no. I'm Magog, and I'm a raven. Not a selkie. she said, in a singsong accent I recognized as Welsh from watching Torchwood. — Nicole Peeler

The unfortunate reality is that what holds most people back is actually their own beliefs that they are not good enough or deserving enough to be successful. — Jay Samit