Edith Sitwell Quotes
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
Daniel Bruhl
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
Laura Marling
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
James Surowiecki
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My grandfather and I were very close.
Tea Obreht
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I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
Kirk Hammett
Metallica
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell