Emma Orczy Quotes
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.Emma Orczy
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush -
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
Yani Tseng -
I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
Becky G -
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos -
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
Walter Cronkite -
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Orhan Pamuk -
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
Frances Beinecke -
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
Zoe Kravitz -
I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
Dana Perino
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
Jack Gilbert -
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
Baz Luhrmann -
As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
Aaron Rodgers -
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz -
There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
Sally Ride
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James -
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
James McCloughan -
The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
Madeleine Stowe -
I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
Alice Waters -
I feel I should stay away from discussing specific cases that may come before the court.
J. M. Roberts -
I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.
Emma Orczy