Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Quotes to Explore
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.
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Flowers are happy things.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.
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It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.
Nastassja Kinski -
I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine-as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble-it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.
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Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
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I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.
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Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
