Christopher Isherwood Quotes
I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. 'Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla' - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
Val McDermid
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
Wale
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra Modi
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
Gayle Forman
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
Tamera Mowry
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
Laura Bush
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
Kate Bernheimer
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
Cameron Winklevoss
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A man's kiss is his signature.
Mae West
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
Karen Salmansohn
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
Barack Obama
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Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
Bernard Arnault
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Friedenberg
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I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
Leo Varadkar
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I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. 'Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla' - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!
Christopher Isherwood