Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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Men without jobs do not form families.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
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An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.
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A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
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English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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God is Man's greatest invention.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's something that's not booming at the moment, let's slash it.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
