David Brin Quotes
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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
Said Nursi -
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla -
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
Viktor Orban
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Fay Weldon -
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes -
We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
Samantha Power
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
Tea Obreht -
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
Samantha Shannon -
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester -
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison
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Nobody wants a complainer.
Kurt Vile -
You have to drink when it's hard dealing with things when you're sober.
Na Hae Ryeong -
The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.
Marion Nestle -
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran -
We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
Carl Honore -
They say survival is Nature’s only form of flattery.
David Brin