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Robert Walpole Quotes

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Robert Walpole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: August 26, 1676 - March 18, 1745

Topics

Home Great Beginning War Safety

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

Search Feeling Alive Want Real See

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

John Christopher

Good Knowledge Freedom Evil Thought

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

Simple Architecture Which Haughty

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Man Name Drunk Cow Milk Him

People do stupid things... words are important.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Words People Stupid Important Things

It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.

Mike Posner

Music Honesty Now Want Listen Out

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

Management Small Grow Done Evolve

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

Jason Behr

Me Think Grow Grow Up Up Ever

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Jay Asher

Now Same Basic Desires Teens Had

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

Deion Sanders

Fishing Fish I Can Kid Been Really

There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

Colin Trevorrow

Interesting Animals Want Human See

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

Bobby Kotick

Business Great Culture Excellence