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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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. … Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.
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The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
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Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.
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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.
