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.
Bear Grylls
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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.
S. C. Gwynne
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Tammy Bruce
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
Fannie Hurst
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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!
Manika
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
Barry Took
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
Tamara Mellon
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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.
Magnus Carlsen
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
Larry Niven
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Ibrahim Rugova
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
Ingmar Bergman
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
Dakota Fanning
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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.
Jimmy Carter
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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.
Dana Perino
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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.
Elvis Stojko
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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.
James Salter
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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.
Alice Oswald
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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.
Mary Webb