Dodie Smith Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
Vijay -
Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
Eden Hazard -
In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
Yehuda Berg -
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams -
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
Larry Kramer -
In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
H. R. McMaster
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
Ed Sullivan -
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach -
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Yogi Berra -
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
Malcolm Turnbull -
You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I was a campaign widow.
Laura Moser
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones -
As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
Hallie Ephron -
We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
Dan Coats -
True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
Garth Brooks -
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
Paloma Elsesser
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
William Wordsworth -
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
William Graham Sumner -
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas -
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen -
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dodie Smith