Quotes of: Roberts Keyword

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

Wellington Mara

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

Walter Salles

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

William Westmoreland

Even though you're not by me side, Night, you will forever be my first man, my Zettai Kareshi

Yuu Watase

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

Bram Cohen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Marcus Buckingham

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

William Howard Taft

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Katori Hall

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

Ed Gillespie

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Clarence Day

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Edward Young

Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching...

Future Shock

The History of Ireland in two words: . The Invasion by the Vikings: . The Invasion by the Normans. The Flight of the Earls, Mr Oliver Cromwell. Daniel O’Connell, Robert Emmett, The Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, Easter Rising, Michael Collins, É...

History of the Rain

He saw something more in those eyes. The emotion wasn't nakedly apparent, but Mr. Cawley was a professional at reading the subtleties of people. The elderly and wildly successful credit card magnate believed that certain human frailties could actuall...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

The student body, too, felt more diverse. Rob spoke often of "real people" with his friends, by which he meant people who struggled, like they all did. On the Ivy League campus visits, any sense of daily or long-term struggle had seemed airbrushed. A...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does....

Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps

He was known to hit low, drive upward from the hips, and flip other boys over his shoulder and onto their backs, knocking the wind out of them on the glass-littered asphalt, sometimes causing a fumble and always inciting cheers from onlookers up and ...

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League