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.Pearl S. Buck
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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.
Kate Beckinsale -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I think I need security.
Zoe Sugg -
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
Jack Dangermond -
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell
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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.
J. Maarten Troost -
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.
Oscar Isaac -
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
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.
Barack Obama -
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
Jackie DeShannon -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek -
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson -
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Nancy O'Dell -
What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
Ted Shackelford
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I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.
Michael Steger -
We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.
Pierre Trudeau -
Women drive box office.
Octavia Spencer -
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of Assisi -
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
Wallace Stevens -
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.
Pearl S. Buck