H. G. Wells Quotes
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.H. G. Wells
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
C. S. Lewis -
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev -
In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
Jack McBrayer -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
Taylor Swift -
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Ednita Nazario -
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow -
I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
Kailash Satyarthi -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo -
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe -
I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
Jacki Weaver
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I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.
DeRay Mckesson -
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
E. V. Lucas -
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise Pascal -
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard Cohen -
There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.
C. S. Lewis -
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
H. G. Wells