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.Elsa Schiaparelli
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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.
Sadhu Vaswani -
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam -
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
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.
Walt Mossberg -
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.
Pat Roberts -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams
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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.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Dan Quayle -
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.
Hans Zimmer -
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.
Harold H. Greene -
I will not get very far with this attitude.
Nancy Cartwright -
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono
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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.
Orson Welles -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
Halima Aden -
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie -
Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
Barton Booth
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Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped - always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!
Kenneth Grahame -
On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!
Sam Kinison -
I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
Lisa Murkowski -
Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.
John McCain -
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli