Edmund Blunden Quotes
They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.Edmund Blunden
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson -
There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
Anton Zaslavski -
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Pat Robertson -
It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
F. W. de Klerk -
I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
Iman -
The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
Paige Craig -
Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
Lajos Kossuth
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Every once in a while, we'd ask my dad if we could get a ride in one of these planes. And, he did take us to the flying club and get us a ride in the Pushpak and a glider that the flying club had.
Kalpana Chawla -
If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce -
How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.
Betsy Hodges -
Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for.
Luke Combs -
Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
Danny Danon
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
Kevin Spacey -
Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.
M. King Hubbert -
Knowing who you are is confidence.
Mila Kunis -
She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.
M. K. Hobson -
Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!
Nancy Byrd Turner -
They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.
Edmund Blunden