Ernest Holmes Quotes
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
Ernest Holmes
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Tamora Pierce
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Ina Garten
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
Oriana Fallaci
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You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot -
Anna Akhmatova
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
LeRoy Neiman
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
Patti Smith
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When I arrived in Ford, a decision was made to sell many marquee brands. This was because 85 per cent of the sales were from Ford and Lincoln brands. We were clear that for the company's strong future, we needed to focus on the Ford brands.
Alan Mulally
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It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
Marcus Luttrell
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I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
Ben Whishaw
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Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.
Lou Ferrigno
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The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Mark Dacascos
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
William Cowper
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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
William Blake
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
Ernest Holmes
