Orison Swett Marden Quotes

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Jodie Foster

FriendshipFriendYouKnowAshamed

I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

Joe Haldeman

WarBookLovedSaidThreeHand

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

SonTimeMomentBestDoingYou

There will be an electronic currency, and it will be universal, and we must accept that fact.

John McAfee

AcceptWillUniversalMustCurrency

I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

PassionLovedOperationsFarHad

Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

Tony Campolo

GoodBibleLookNeedFaithfulTake

The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare the strategic, logistical, and political problems that doomed the invasion, but also how the still-green President John F. Kennedy scrambled to keep the U.S. from entering into a full conflict with Cuba.

Robert Dallek

HistoryConflictProblemsDetails

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

FaithTimeFreeDoneSayWill

I work on weekends, but from home.

Mary Schapiro

WorkHomeWeekends

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

WorkWomenCommunityTogetherLiving

I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

Jason Momoa

WalkKingBabyHouseSayKind

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Joseph Needham

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