Saint Augustine Quotes
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Saint Augustine
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
E. L. James
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jackie Kennedy
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
Maiwenn
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
Felicity Jones
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
Warren Spector
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius
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I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.
Philip Pullman
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Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
Penny Junor
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
Q-Tip
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With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
Jenny Zhang
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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Saint Augustine
