Elizabeth Montagu Quotes
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
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I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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I really love stories about women.
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If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!
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Ein armer wohlthätiger Mensch kann sich manchmal reich fühlen, ein geiziger Krösus nie.
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I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
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Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
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I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
