Ruth Pitter Quotes
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.Ruth Pitter
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
Jack McBrayer -
I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
Wendy Davis -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
Iain De Caestecker -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
Hamza Yusuf
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi -
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
Frances Farmer -
Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
Wendy Davis -
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
Malcolm X -
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
Narendra Modi -
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
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Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number.
Lynn Margulis -
Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.'
Antonin Scalia -
I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.
Prince Charles -
Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
Jared Polis -
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Anthony Foxx -
I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
Duncan Jones
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I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
Dick Van Dyke -
You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
George P. Shultz -
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
Sara Sheridan -
Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.
Bill Moggridge -
Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
Anna Louise Strong -
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
Ruth Pitter