Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
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We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.
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In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
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For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)
