Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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Behold him setting in his western skies,The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I always say that I was born in the wrong era. I should've been born in the '70s or '80s when love meant so much more than it does today. In this busy world, we forget to find each other, fall in love, and go all the way for our soul mates.
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The engagement of the EU and China is total. We are going to vote together on the resolution.
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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
