Wendell Berry Quotes
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.Wendell Berry
Quotes to Explore
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek -
I like films to be complete in their written form.
Patrice Leconte -
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel -
If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
Rachael Ray -
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Warren G. Harding
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
Jack Falahee -
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
Kate Bosworth -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
Nancy Pelosi -
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
Mallory Ortberg
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill -
Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
Edgar Ramirez -
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Okky Madasari -
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett -
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
Imelda May -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.
Andrea Martin -
I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
Daisy Ridley -
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz -
I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.
J. J. Abrams -
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy -
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Wendell Berry