"No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober."

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Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.5, The Floating Press

Samuel Smiles

#Law Quotes #Sober Quotes #Idle Quotes

“Hollywood is my domestic idyll.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.”
“Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.”
“I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.”

Source : "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.
“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”
“I want it to be so that when No. 27 is out there, they don't know what's going on because I do it all.”
“A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.”
“I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.”

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