Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
Namie Amuro -
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
Kaki King -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields -
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
Cao Yu -
I still like my antique clothes.
Barbra Streisand -
My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
Hans Hofmann -
I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
Kristin Scott Thomas -
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
John Cho -
When I was 17, my sister and I used to drive back from school in her car and sing the Spice Girls' chartbusters from the '90s at the top of our voices.
Amy Jackson -
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne