Freya Stark Quotes
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.Freya Stark
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
Madchen Amick -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
Gary Johnson
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
Pamela Anderson -
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
Raghuram Rajan -
Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
Taraji P. Henson -
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Ted Rall -
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms -
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
Oliver Evans
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon -
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
G. Willow Wilson -
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
Dana Hussein -
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy -
I'm scared of the day I turn 19. I really don't want to grow past 18.
Kylie Jenner -
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
James Stockdale -
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith -
So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
J. H. Wyman -
Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.
Freya Stark