Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent is very hot.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.
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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
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Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!
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It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.
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Jesus … look how we live? I'm practically a serf.
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
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The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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Maybe he overreacted a bit." - "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland".
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I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
