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When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

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• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • Feeling

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Relationship

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Time
  • Think
  • Age

• When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Success
  • Emotional
  • Regret

• I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Health
  • Insurance

• People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

  

  James McBride
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • Impossible
  • Land
  • Intense

• It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Up
  • Fun

• Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Style

• When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

  

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