James Stephens Quotes
In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.
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What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is family and these moments that it can create to just sit with my son, read a comic book or go outside on a hot day, take a swim and have a Popsicle treat with him.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.
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In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.
