Thomas Huxley Quotes

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895

Topics

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Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

Ann-Margret

SmileGoodPeopleFeel GoodThink

I would love to have more actress friends, but I just don't.

Anna Faris

LoveFriendsMoreActressJust

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

Jeff Bridges

SportsBigSports FanWellFan

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

Jeff Foxworthy

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Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sophie Hannah

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I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

TrainingBackWallPlaceStreetWhy

There's no good way to be the center of a media maelstrom you did not choose for yourself.

Michelle Dean

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Cricket has given me everything. If I'm anything today, it is because of the game... where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.

Mohammad Azharuddin

TodayMeTearsCricketGameSweat

What we need to do is to inspire businessmen and businesswomen to open up small businesses and medium businesses, and have big businesses come and relocate to New Jersey.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

SmallInspireNewNeedOpenBig

Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.

Johnny Flynn

PoliticsYourselfPeopleEnergyMore

My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.

Dick Gephardt

GoodMoneyPeopleHelpPlanTax

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

Donald Johanson

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