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.
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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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A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.
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Helen Thomas: What about the chief of British intelligence saying you were going to fix the facts around the politics?Dana Perino: I think that that’s been debunked.Helen Thomas: It’s never been been debunked.Dana Perino: Well, it’s been debunked by me.Helen Thomas: Good for you.Dana Perino: Good for me.
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But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
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The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.
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I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
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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.
