Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

Topics

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There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?

Robert Rinder

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We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Robert J. Shiller

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Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

Tom Frieden

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Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Roger Caras

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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

Robertson Davies

FeelHelpYouDownSometimesWrite

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

Lori Petty

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Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Dolly Parton

RootsTreesTakeStormsMakeDeeper

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

Deborah Eisenberg

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I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

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Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

Arthur L. Herman

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I cannot stand unfairness.

Sylvie Guillem

StandCannotUnfairness

One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.

Peggy Whitson

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