Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been; I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend, Then today I started loving you again.
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At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
