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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Benjamin Disraeli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

Topics

Peace Fools Only Fit Wartime

When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Life Great Think Sleeping Complain

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Andrew Clements

Good Think Thinking Someone Feeling

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Architecture Building Old Hard Clap

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

Car Sports Speed Talking Always Own

I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.

Music People World Think Living Who

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Award Find Place Comfortable Almost

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Father Man Important Class Poor

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

Time Fun Me Free Internet You

I think, basically, we didn't hurt anyone. We were out there having a good time. You can go and get educated, but you can come to 'Hee Haw' and get another education.

Education Good Time Think Hurt You

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.

Work Business Time People Me Mom

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Education Happiness Mom Magic Poor

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

Science Best Focus Detail Small

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