Pearl S. Buck Quotes

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

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• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

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• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

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• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
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• Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.

  

  Harpo Marx
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• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
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• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Would
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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
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• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  

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• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Believe
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• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

  

  Kate Walsh
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• Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
  • May
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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

  

  David Remnick
  • Life
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• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • May
  • Moral