John Tillotson Quotes
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I have learned how to better handle things as they come.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
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I think sometimes with the parsnip, people are maybe a little afraid and don't use it as often.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
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In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.
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How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
