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Van Wyck Brooks Quotes

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Van Wyck Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1886 - May 2, 1963

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Profound Take Well Geese French Led

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

High Rule Footballer Needs Wide

People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.

People Decisions Judge You Look

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

Life Respect Without Valuable Most

I have a cow's valve in my heart.

Heart Cow Valve

Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

Good Future I Am People Me Think

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

Culture Mind Think Box Ability Out

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Good Business People Product Company

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Good God Power Me Better Doing

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Society Free Trying You Try First

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Work Good Live Business People Well

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

Positive Teacher Time Me Looks Way

Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.

Live Snow Border Reality Ice You

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