Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.Bernard Cornwell
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
Padgett Powell -
Police can only act on intelligence.
P. Chidambaram -
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Zig Ziglar -
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
Nancy McKeon -
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
Edgar Meyer -
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
Baba Kalyani
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
Val Guest -
Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
Zhang Yin -
I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
Haley Joel Osment -
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
Felix Dennis
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
Bob Graham -
Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.
Lita Ford -
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
John Ortberg -
The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.
Bernard Cornwell