Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes
The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
Paul Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
Maddie Ziegler
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
Pat Barker
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Ralph Thomas Walker
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson
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At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.
Mahershala Ali
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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
Hamza Yusuf
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I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
Daniel Cudmore
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
Fernando Pessoa
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain