Top 14 Fowell Buxton Quotes

#1. Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#2. One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#3. Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. I was just a kid growing up in Jamaica with dreams, and I want people to know that it's possible to dream bigger and accomplish those dreams.

Kamilah Taylor

#5. Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and sorrow, but she didn't. Instead she loved each of us deeper, and found even more reasons to celebrate our lives together.

Ron Mayes

#6. I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.

Phoebe Tonkin

#7. In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Gloria Steinem

#8. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable

Thomas Fowell Buxton

#9. Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#10. When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. And you may not think
I care for you
When you know down inside
That I really do

Bee Gees

#12. I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

Girl Talk

#13. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

#14. A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

William Kirby

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