Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.
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Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.
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None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter.
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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
