John Locke Quotes
Let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures of breeding daily inculcated into them, that which will most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about them.
John Locke
Nazareth
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Nancy Pearcey
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
I'm quite good at not writing.
Ian Mcewan
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
Quincy Jones
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
Barry Unsworth
Fashion is not frivolous.
Donatella Versace
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
Tabatha Coffey
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
Ann Hood
Let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures of breeding daily inculcated into them, that which will most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about them.
John Locke
Nazareth
