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James M. Barrie Quotes

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: May 9, 1860 - June 19, 1937

Topics

Child Believe Down Dead Fairy Says

It's important to know, whether you're pro or anti the current president and what he's doing, that he's doing what he thinks is for the betterment of the country because his interest is to make this country a better place.

Better Doing You Country Place Know

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

Wrong Living Right Years Right Track

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

History Control Financial Interesting

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

Shirley Chisholm

Women Men Opportunities Try System

Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both.

Down Falling Downfall Share Big Us

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

Fun Have Fun Friends Way Used

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

Past Mind Me You Creating Head

The confidence level that Steph is playing with now, obviously, you won't totally stop him. If I'm playing against him right now, I think I'd try to pick him up full court, get the ball out of his hands, try to be a little physical.

Chauncey Billups

Confidence Think Hands You Stop Try

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

History Past Me Believe Connections

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.

William Wallace

Myself Day Losing Face Independence

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Swami Sivananda

Great Mind Evil Action Spark Desire

If any other part of your body has some weakness, you go, 'Well I can probably manage.' But when you're a quarterback, and it's your right hand, you're certainly concerned far as being able to do your job.

Job Weakness You Body I Can Hand

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