Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.Elizabeth Goudge
Quotes to Explore
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
Sam Graves -
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
Aaron Swartz -
When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
Mahershala Ali -
I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
Tammy Duckworth -
Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
Washed Out
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
Ted Deutch -
One can only blaspheme if one believes.
W. H. Auden -
While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
Lin Yutang -
You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.
Patty Smyth -
You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.
Alycia Debnam-Carey -
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Colin Firth
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I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
Jane Kaczmarek -
It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.
Maurice Greene -
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
Anne Wojcicki -
Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.
Jimmy Walker -
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
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Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .
Thomas Carlyle -
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
Penn Jillette -
I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
Pierre Boulez -
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
Ben Schott -
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
Elizabeth Goudge