John Betjeman Quotes
Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.
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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
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One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.
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The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.
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Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.
