Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.Jane Welsh Carlyle
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
Imogen Heap -
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
Adam Cohen -
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan -
With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison -
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
R. Kelly -
My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
Dan Stevens -
Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
Maisie Williams -
Having the chance to walk at New York Fashion Week for Yeezy and Milan Fashion Week for Alberta Ferretti and Max Mara in a hijab is so significant. It sends a message to young women everywhere that you can be beautiful for just being you.
Halima Aden
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
Landon Donovan -
I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
Fleur East -
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
Ted Koppel -
What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
Lake Bell -
I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
Becki Newton -
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
Jane Asher -
I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.
Jessica Walter -
Everybody deserves to be loved.
Charlie Ebersol -
The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
Brad M. Carlson Cheap Trick -
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
Marianne Williamson -
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
Jane Welsh Carlyle