John Sergeant Wise Quotes
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.
