W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
Carlene Carter -
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini -
It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
Malala Yousafzai -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
Vernon Howard -
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher -
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
Hari Kunzru -
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
Eavan Boland -
Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
Aberjhani -
I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
Rachael Harris -
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Garrett Graff -
Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I believe that the world is a safer and a better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
Marco Rubio -
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers -
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
Mary Doria Russell -
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.
D. H. Lawrence -
Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.
Catharine Macaulay -
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
W. Somerset Maugham