Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes
Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
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Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
