C. J. Cherryh Quotes
'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
C. J. Cherryh
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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Ralph Fiennes
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Karl Jaspers
It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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I never realized how closely connected the body and heart are until I met him.
Bella Andre
But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do.
Erica Mena
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.
Sigmund Freud
'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
C. J. Cherryh