Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.Mary Wortley Montagu
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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 -
Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
Rachael Ray -
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls -
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Victoria Moran -
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis -
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
Hamish Bowles
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Hans Christian Andersen -
I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
Victor Oladipo -
I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa -
You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Cal Thomas
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
Gaby Hoffmann -
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. Lucas -
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Ed Sheeran -
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
Nancy Kress -
The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.
Ted Olson
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Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the 'best of his race.' As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
Burgess Owens -
People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
James Nesbitt -
When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.
Marvin Sapp -
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Mary Wortley Montagu