Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.Mary Augusta Ward
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi -
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon -
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie -
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel -
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
Viktor Orban -
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp -
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
Sam Hunt -
I've always watched the political shows.
Larry Wilmore -
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
Karen Hughes -
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
Lapo Elkann -
I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones
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The bad boy: always more fun.
Ian McShane -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
J. D. Vance -
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Brian Andreas -
Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
Barack Obama -
I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.
Ben Lerner -
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
Ram Dass -
Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
Heather O'Neill -
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Mary Augusta Ward