Ella Maillart Quotes
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart
Quotes to Explore
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
Dakota Johnson
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
J. R. Moehringer
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
Alexander the Great
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
Aeschylus
