Beverley Nichols Quotes

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Beverley Nichols

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• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

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• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

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• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

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• You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

  

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• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

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• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

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• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

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• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

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• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
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• For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

  

  Randy Travis
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• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  

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• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

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• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

  

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• Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

  

  William Godwin
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• If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

  

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• Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
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• If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

  

  Gene Simmons
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• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace