Emil Cioran Quotes
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian -
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable -
I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
Victor Mature -
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
Jack Dangermond -
It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt -
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini -
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz -
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler -
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian Mcewan -
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
Vern Buchanan
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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
Barack Obama -
The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
Federica Mogherini -
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo -
I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
Victor Cruz -
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph Adams Cram -
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye
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I don't believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.
Akkineni Nagarjuna -
What it feels like when you're playing good? I don't know. It feels the same as every other day. Just more putts are going in the hole.
Dustin Johnson -
My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.
Kurt Vile -
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
Jason McCoy -
We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.
Christine McCormick Day -
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
Emil Cioran