Octave Mirbeau Quotes
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I would like to direct.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.
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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
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Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."
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Although it is hard to see why any sensible authority would feel threatened by the peaceful expression of one's point of view, there is a long history of trying to repress subversive depictions of political figures - back in the 19th century, for example, France's King Louis Philippe was depicted as a piece of fruit.
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
