James Joyce Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez -
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
Radhanath Swami -
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
Ian Watson -
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater -
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
Felicity Huffman
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler -
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
Ted Allen -
It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber -
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.
Donna Tartt -
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
Franz Kafka -
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Katharine Hepburn -
I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.
Don King -
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
James Joyce