Hall Caine Quotes
leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
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I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
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In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.
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leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.
