Emma Orczy Quotes
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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If there is one phrase or action that every person on the planet would like to erase from his or her memory or have the chance to undo, it would be, 'Let's do it again.'
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My athlete idol is Usain Bolt. He's inhumanly fast!
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I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.
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Accordingly, time logically supposes a continuous range of intensity of feeling. It follows then, from the definition of continuity, that when any particular kind of feeling is present, an infinitesimal continuum of all feelings differing infinitesimally from that, is present.
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
