Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I think I need security.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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This is the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense -the Innocent Woman Principle : Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.
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You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
