Sarah Fielding Quotes
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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There was only one thing of which he could be certain now. Boredom would not be a serious problem for a considerable time to come.
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
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I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
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I heard Cher say, 'I answer to two people: Myself and God.' I say, 'I only answer to me. I'm not sure I appreciate God's opinion.'
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Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.
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The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
