Jean Rostand Quotes
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
Saint Ambrose
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
Rabih Alameddine
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Naomi Klein
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
Gail Simmons
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Dan Quisenberry
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson
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Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Mary Manin Morrissey
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
David Foster Wallace
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Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila’s capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.
Elena Ferrante
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Jean Rostand