Harper Lee Quotes
When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.Harper Lee
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard -
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Edgar Wright -
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
N. T. Wright
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.
Adam Hasner -
I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
Eavan Boland -
My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?
Ja Rule -
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
Tanya Tucker -
I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
Eddie Izzard -
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
Wallace Shawn -
I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.
Navi Rawat -
If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.
Carly Fiorina -
The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
Dan Simmons -
Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
Josephine Hart -
The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
Antony C. Sutton -
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest Hemingway -
President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.
Sally Jewell -
I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
Amanda Lee Williford -
When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
Harper Lee