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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: french
Birth: July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859

Topics

Time Reading Remember Drama Cabin

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Work Good Goals Good Things Building

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber

Culture Black You Know Mean Right

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

John Cassavetes

Change People Two Only Hours Lives

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

Shimon Peres

Experience Conflict Building End

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

City American Presence Baghdad

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

Luca Guadagnino

Life Family People Choose Want Way

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

Jason Dohring

Love Sports Baseball Basketball Golf

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Delta Goodrem

Learning I Am Think Always Been Am

There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.

Chris Hadfield

Good I Am Interesting Just Because

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

Beauty Grief Shadow Pain Mind Gift

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.

Clint Hill

Myself Nothing President Fired Get

You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.

Bob Newhart

Enjoy Long You Go Way Dead