W. H. Auden Quotes
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
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There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch -
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
Yair Lapid -
The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Okky Madasari -
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
Gary Sinise -
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath -
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson -
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek -
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
Lana Del Rey -
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver -
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
Eddie Trunk -
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
Kate Smith -
I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
Fatou Bensouda
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I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
Colm Toibin -
You base man you,—how can you look me in the face after what hath passed between us?—See here, perfidious wretch, how I am forc'd to bear about the load of infamy you have laid upon me— -O Macheath! thou hast robb'd me of my quiet—to see thee tortur'd would give me pleasure.
John Gay -
Chinese people age overnight.
Karl Pilkington -
I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
Donald Berwick -
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden