Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
Qandeel Baloch -
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
Gail Collins -
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos -
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
Adam Peaty -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
Larry Bird -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
Wayne Rooney -
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
Webb Simpson -
Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel Castro -
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang -
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
Salli Richardson -
When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
Nadia Comaneci
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
Fairfax Cone -
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
Kate Beckinsale -
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
Athenaeus -
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.
Paul S. Kemp -
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor -
Oh! why should woman ever love,Trusting to one false star above;And fling her little chance awayOf sunshine for its treacherous ray.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon