Matthew Prior Quotes
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
H. P. Lovecraft -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
Natasha Lyonne -
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
Fernando Torres -
There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
Patricia Clarkson -
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
Carl Karcher -
People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
Wayne Rogers -
In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
J. J. Watt -
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
Maggie Gallagher -
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
Lactantius
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What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
Laura Marano -
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
Adam Pally -
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
J. B. Priestley -
Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Carl Jung -
Today is not such a tremendous day for us Rhodesians. We made our decision to become a Republic quite a long while ago, and this is simply the process of formalizing it. Our Independence Day is the great day. Rhodesia did not want to seize independence from Britain. It was forced upon us.
Ian Smith
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
Zachary Taylor -
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
C. S. Lewis -
I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
Mamie Gummer -
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
Fred Thompson -
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Val Kilmer -
And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior