George Borrow Quotes
There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.George Borrow
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood -
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
Hamish Bowles -
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi -
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Abraham Maslow -
To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
Warren Farrell -
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
Kate Micucci -
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie
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A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
Yochai Benkler -
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
A. Scott Berg -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens -
There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
Valerie Plame -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Jack Vance -
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
Al-Waleed bin Talal -
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I don't come from a lot, so Disney gave me the opportunity to go to college, which is great. My brother and I are some of the first in our family to ever do that.
Cole Sprouse -
Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.
Confucius -
There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.
George Borrow