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“I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.”

Ends Young Born Ministers Prime Prime Minister

“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Thinking Ends School Political Born Practice Politician Practicals The End Of The Day Political Science

Author:George Weah

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born”

Ends Born Party East London Labour Apology

Author:George Galloway

“While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.”

Years Looks Made Stills Ends Facts Reality Dies Born Flower Spring Illusion Fairs Winter Tiny Autumn Cracks Caps Bud Percussion Optical Illusions

Author:Karel Capek

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”

Feels Should Children Ends Happens Mother Born Tragedy Categories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...”

Men Firsts Ends Born Half Too Much Dog Beats Towns Kicks Covering Dead Man

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins”

“So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.”

Should Ends Dies Individual Born Pleasure Civilization Pursuit Stoicism Unbelief Stoic Scepticism Undisciplined Epicurean

Author:Will Durant

“Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.”

Knows Ends Life Is Born Technology Know How Stage Broken Evolve Broken Down

Book:I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

Source: I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething

“There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.”

People Knows Wells I Can Ends Helping Light Born Color Ordinary Red Blind Disaster Spells Conform Signals Slow Down Pull Ups Forging Red Lights Locomotives Forging Ahead

Author:Agatha Christie

“If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.”

Ifs Humans Children War Ends Enough Problem Might Born Poverty Solve Good Will Patents Human Problems Waging War

Book:Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life

“A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.”

Men Mean Ends Whole Stories Law Literature Born Teach Written Sells Means To An End

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

People World Believe Children Ends Mother Born Half Quality Forever Son Daughter Adults Weight Burden Active Carrie Bores Redeemer Son And Daughter Wronged

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?”

People Doe Ends Dies Wish Born

Author:John Cleese

“The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.”

People Men Ends Sports Born Opinion Century Human Nature Hundred Fellows Bounds Envy Competitors Rivals Pillars

Author:Aristotle

“I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.”

Knows Ideas Ends Whole Reality Dies Sides Born Horse Storytelling Galaxy Wagons

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.”

People Ends Born Memories Poor Great Depression Tag Orphanage

Author:Bryce Courtenay

“That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge

“I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”

Ends Order Born Poor Son Necks Candle Portions Ireland Marble Banned

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.”

Ifs Children Ends Fighting Individual Strong Born Loses Failing Shapes Individuality Uniqueness Clay Strong Will Spiteful

Author:Melvin Konner

“Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.”

People Want Giving Art Ends Born Poor Rich Art Is Brilliant Immortality Pockets Substitutes Museums Closest Shrouds

Author:Damien Hirst

“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.”

“I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!”

Knows Firsts Ends Facts Dies Born Species Accepted Evolve Extinction Mammals Beginnings And Ends

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.”

Ends God Past Dies Universe Born Existence Eternal Infinite Remains All Time Dissolution Past Present Past Present And Future Times Past

Author:Rama Swami

“I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Stills War Ends Play Used Fighting Born Boys My Friends War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Nazi Jersey New Jersey Backyards Always Fighting

Author:Paul Auster

“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.”

People Important Ends Sometimes Home Life Is Born Important Things Our Family Carrie Coming Home Things In Life City Life Most Important Things In Life Sex And The City

Author:Candice Bergen

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.”

Ends Pain Born Paid

Author:Francis Thompson

“Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!”

Ifs Mind Stills Ends Together Winning Born Focus Cry Greatness Get Up Ties Champion Within You Rope Knots Conqueror Keep The Faith Greatness Within Born To Win

Author:Les Brown

“I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.”

Thinking Way Writing Persons Book Ends Certain Born Creative Teacher Amount I've Learned Favourite Creative Writing Best Teacher Favourite Book

Author:Markus Zusak

“I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.”

Thinking Knows Ends Dies Born Journey Born Alone

Author:Shirley MacLaine

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