Matthew Arnold Quotes
English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society - that is what interests me.Matthew Arnold
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
Naomi Klein -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband -
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
Banks -
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Victoria Pendleton -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
Fidel Castro -
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell -
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
Cameron Winklevoss -
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
Carli Lloyd -
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot -
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi -
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush -
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland -
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
Vanessa Paradis
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An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
Anthony Trollope -
Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.
John Muir -
The soul of India lives in its villages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart -
I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.
Meir Soloveichik -
English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society - that is what interests me.
Matthew Arnold