Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 20, 1879 - October 6, 1949

Topics

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I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

John Hurt

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While the agreement provides a level of constraint on Iran's nuclear weapons program, it confers legitimacy on their nuclear threshold status, an unprecedented shift for a country with so many entanglements.

Jeff Fortenberry

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I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

John Updike

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Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Michelle Williams

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I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

Luke Bryan

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Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

Brian Behlendorf

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I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

Annette Bening

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I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

Alicia Silverstone

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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Sydney Carter

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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Toby Young

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When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

Norman Jewison

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