James Thurber Quotes
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?James Thurber
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang -
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell -
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci -
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Tammy Bruce -
I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
Maggie Grace -
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
Walt Mossberg -
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra -
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
Victor Grignard -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
Aasif Mandvi -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb -
Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
Flula Borg -
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk-they follow her.
Warren Farrell -
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave -
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
Pat Conroy -
If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.
Andy Lau -
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber