Homer Quotes
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
Kenneth Clarke -
When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
Eric Metaxas -
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
Antonin Dvorak -
The softest in the world surpasses the hardest in the world.
Lao Tzu -
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
George Bernard Shaw -
Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.
Bill Clinton
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The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
Edwin Muir -
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
Rupert Murdoch -
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
You've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.
Jack Valenti -
Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.
Matt Damon -
I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
Katherine Dunn
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
Will Rogers -
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. Gass -
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.
Henry Louis Gates -
His descent was like nightfall.
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