Mary Webb Quotes
Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.
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Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
