Alvar N. C. de Vaca Quotes

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

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I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'

Melvin Van Peebles

BusinessArtRestLearnAmericaYou

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

Anita Shreve

MeEarlyAlwaysOutBeenFact

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

Steve Jurvetson

ChangeTimeChange The WorldProgress

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

Sue Monk Kidd

FreedomPowerBeautifulThinkJust

Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

Steven Pinker

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To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Tom Tancredo

WorldRestImperialismIslamLeft

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

Tom Freston

WorkHard WorkMoneySchoolNever

I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.

Mike Pence

I AmInfluenceImpactImmigration

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Michelangelo

TimeGreaterWastedHarmThan

I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good.

Judy Blume

GoodWritingFictionSomethingGet

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Clint Eastwood

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My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

Arsene Wenger

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