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'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."
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And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
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There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.
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[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.
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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.
