Gene Wolfe Quotes
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
Octavia E. Butler -
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
Maeve Binchy -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
Yoko Ono -
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
M.I.A. -
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra -
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. Chidambaram
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
Jackie Chan -
So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
T. J. Perkins -
'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
Fantasia Barrino -
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
Edmund Hillary -
What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
Warren Buffett -
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
Rajneesh
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman -
Competition
Preity Zinta -
That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties.
John Jay -
I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.
Donald Trump -
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Francis Bacon -
Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.
Gene Wolfe