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“The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.”

Has Beens Action Purpose Order Right Now Waste Resources Constant Nuclear Regions Illegal Serving Ignored Discouraging Pirate Westerners Nuclear Waste

Author:K'naan

“The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.”

Ideas Calling Constant Anathema

Author:Wole Soyinka

“A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.”

People Knows Able Lost Hours Half Know How Jokes Constant Hopeless Camps Ongoing

Author:Tim Cahill

“There's a part of me that wants to look nice and occasionally wants to be snappy, and the other part of me that just wants to wear the same sweater until I die. And I'm in constant conflict between those two sides.”

Want Looks Two Dies Sides Nice Conflict Constant Two Sides Sweaters

Author:Hugh Dancy

“The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.”

Humans States Body Humor Funny Fall Born Minutes Constant Decay Falling Apart Human Body

Author:Adam Ferrara

“My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some degree that sets me up as boorish, but I'll have to live with that, and, honestly, I'd rather err on the side of being "unredeemingly dark," as one reviewer said about blood kin, than on keeping to the sunny side.”

Knows Said Sides Dark Failing Blood Degrees Constant Honestly Gravity Sunny Reviewers Sunny Side

Author:Mark Powell

“No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.”

Should Children Use Problem Rooms Should Have Sick Crisis Constant Medicine Financial Medical Emergencies Financial Crisis Emergency Room Medical Problems

Author:Brad Henry

“There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That desire, that need, is as palpable and relentless as any junkie's craving, and will possess me all day until I can park myself in a chair and do my work.”

Needs Writing I Can Desire Drama Madness Constant Busy Parks Chairs Craving Relentless Junkie

Author:Jillian Medoff

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

Years Wells Doe Two Play Helping Bigs Quality Roles Five Progress Achieve Football Six Constant Seven Two Years Seven Years Life Time

Author:Berti Vogts

“On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.”

Giving Easy Loses Constant Track Caught Caught Up Sensory Overload

Author:Chuck Ragan

“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.”

Looks Doe Made Different Home Stuff Color Needed Projects Weak Theater Constant Complicated Screens Versions Digital Get Real Pumps

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.”

Wells Language Social Parent Simple Rooms Millions Grace Doors Behavior Expectations Constant Silly Abstract Rebellion Household Better Life Closed Doors Well Mannered Social Graces

Author:Jack Nicholson

“What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.”

Mean Materials Constant Hunger Denial Unspoken Material Things

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.”

Thinking Certain Environment Achieve Industry Amount Female Perfection Constant Strive Related Our Society Skinny Work Related

Author:Mila Kunis

“My own heart has to be under constant check by Jesus.”

Heart Christian Jesus Leadership Church My Own Jesus Christ Constant Checks

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined.”

Firsts Moving Science Certain Causes Water Numbers Effects Equal Constant Series Wave Excited Surface Lakes Stagnant Velocity

Book:Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

Source: Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

“I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.”

Stills Father Constant Dialogue

Author:Paul Auster

“While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.”

Needs Has Beens Stills Soul Father Prayer Ready Praying Holy Demand Constant Communion Renewal Fellowship New Day Praying To God Delivering Fellowship With God

Author:Andy Murray

“What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.”

Thinking Mind Reason Dream Justice Possibility Diversity Social Justice Constant Hated Nothingness Being Hated

Book:American Hunger

Source: American Hunger

“The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.”

People Ifs Might Order Enjoy Freedom Liberty Exercise Constant Active Betray Representatives Reserves Resorts Surveillance

Author:Benjamin Constant

“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.”

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

“The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?”

World Heart Two Home Night Forget Christianity Gone Madness Constant Disappointment Rings Inns

Book:Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson

Source: Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.”

States Nature Transformation Remains Constant Perpetual

Book:Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.”

Masters Economics Labor Raises Constant Combination Uniforms Wages Tacit Wealth Of Nations

Book:An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.”

World Has Beens Said Imagine Subjects Masters Economics Labor Organization Accounts Raises Constant Unions Ignorant Combination Uniforms Wages Workmen Tacit Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.”

Inspirational Giving States Transformation Remains Constant Disappear Perpetual Absolutely Nothing Without A Trace

Book:Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.”

Needs Self Interest Decision Company Practice Journey Honesty Exercise Directors Intellectual Prejudice Constant Destination Self Interest Intellectual Honesty

Author:Mervyn King

“A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.”

Should Beauty Constant Arguing Wit Sincere Sincerity Decay Being Sincere

Author:William Congreve

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

People Firsts Looks Would Be Action Practice Design Words Of Wisdom Method Constant Significant African American Customs

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.”

Kind May Said Form Night Space Special Shapes Depression Regard Constant Intimate Layers Showers Texture Good Night Puddles

Book:Bend Sinister

Source: Bend Sinister

“History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.”

Men Hands Causes Constant Historical Active Innocent Woven Degrade

Author:Abigail Adams

“Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.”

“We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.”

Given Powerful Produce Creatures Aim Constant Despite Manage Censorship Ridicule Resilient

Author:Seth

“A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.”

Attention Mark Constant Piety

Book:Works: With the Last Corrections of the Author

Source: Works: With the Last Corrections of the Author

“Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.”

People Running Function Constant Organize Comes And Goes

Author:Michael Gerber

“I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.”

Constant Dread Bullets

Author:Benjamin Harrison

“God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!”

Constant Target Ministry Never Change

Author:Elizabeth George

“All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.”

Humans Culture Possibility Constant All Time Life Changing Engaged Human History New Possibilities

Author:Wade Davis

“Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.”

Men Purpose Enjoy Pleasure Constant Chiefs Faculty Application Disappoint

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.”

Knows Believe Knowing Blood And Love Constant Don't Believe Greed Repeats Foolishness All The Pretty Horses

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.”

Men Enough Government Natural Powerful Effort Progress Conditions Constant Errors Investing Improvement Every Man Administration Spite Uniforms Extravagance

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.”

Two Shows Problem Faces Levels Situation Player Seasons Constant Expected Improvement Handle League Plates Minors Inability Umpires Inconsistent Constant Improvement

Author:Jim Evans

“Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.”

Ifs May Soul States Ability Numbers Secret Constant Burden Chosen Unconscious Hereafter

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.”

May Self Support Health Promise Constant Temper Decay Endeavour

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Mind Minutes Giving Up Paper Constant Fingers Track My Way Things To Do Pens Yearning Of My Mind Keyboards Hankering

Author:Mary Garden

“Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.”

Should May Mean Nations Essentials Constant Dislocation

Author:James Larkin

“Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.”

Constant Sensibility

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.”

Knows Believe Play I Believe Born My Own Existence Consciousness Quality Creativity Constant Spontaneity

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul