Freya Stark Quotes

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

Freya Stark

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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
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• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
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  • Guess

• The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Food
  • Language
  • Dead

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
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• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Time
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• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
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• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
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• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
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• I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

  

  Raghav Bahl
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• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • History
  • Tell

• While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

  

  Christopher Isherwood
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  • Attitude

• There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Work
  • America
  • Help

• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Long
  • Miracle
  • Predicaments

• People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.

  

  James Fox
  • People
  • Long
  • Mind

• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Future