David Gemmell Quotes
I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
Quotes to Explore
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
