Jules Verne Quotes

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

Jules Verne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905

Topics

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General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

Jim Talent

ConfidenceTeamDecisionsPresident

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Robert Powell

BoyBeingEducateHimselfScouting

I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

Matt Lauer

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Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

Stephen Hough

LearningSilenceBornOut

Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves.

Steven Berkoff

AmericanTalkingYouRobotsBecome

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

Rob Halford

EasyYouOthersDeadJustSongs

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

Ruth Bradley

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I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.

Julia Sweeney

LifeFunnyGreatSucceedThinkNice

Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

Jason Kander

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We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

Joseph Pulitzer

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I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito

AloneGovernmentSaidBarriersBreak

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

Dimebag Darrell

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