Nancy Astor Quotes

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Nancy Astor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964

Topics

LonelyMayRatherPioneersOften

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

John F. Kennedy

FitnessSecurityGrowingPhysical

If I'm doing something on stage, and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion, but I also don't believe in being a preacher. If you have a point, that's a bonus. But the funny has to come first; otherwise, you shouldn't call yourself a comedian.

Trevor Noah

FunnyYourselfBelieveDoingYou

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Romesh Gunesekera

StoryDoingYouBackGoNew

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

Jay DeMarcus

LifeBusinessMusicHopePeopleMe

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

Jonny Greenwood

ThinkI ThinkReally

On 'Bar Rescue,' failure is not an option. I have to try to turn the business around.

Jon Taffer

FailureBusinessTryBarTurn

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

ChildrenWorldRoadDownCountry

Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

Christopher McDougall

NatureStrengthTruthTruth IsThink

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Brit Hume

AttitudeFairnessProfessionalSkill

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Arthur Henderson

GreatStrugglePeaceConflictWorld

I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'

Ashley Graham

WorkConfidenceWomenThinkCare

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Scott Hamilton

ConfidenceGoldWinSayingYouSure

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