Cecil Arthur Lewis Quotes
So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!Cecil Arthur Lewis
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
Victoria Osteen -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
Tariq Ramadan -
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Naomi Judd -
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!
Karen Salmansohn
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Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice
T. S. Eliot -
Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.
Otto von Bismarck -
Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
Edward Abbey -
I do sarcasm really poorly.
Brittany Murphy -
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
Ansel Elgort -
I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.
John McEnroe
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For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
Ben Hopkins -
You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots-it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.
Charles Stross -
All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.
Brian Aldiss -
A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
Eric Idle -
Now my belly is as noble as my heart.
Gabriela Mistral -
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
Walker Percy
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The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.
Bill Mallonee -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains -
So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!
Cecil Arthur Lewis