Saint Augustine Quotes
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.Saint Augustine
Quotes to Explore
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard -
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino -
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker -
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Ilan Stavans -
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis -
I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon -
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
Farley Mowat -
I'm not good at accepting help.
Patricia Heaton -
Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
Maisie Williams -
I am happy in Paris.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
John Osborne -
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Saint Augustine -
I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.
Jennifer Grey -
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
Rachel Carson -
Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
Saint Augustine