W. H. Davies Quotes
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.
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I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.
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Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
