Sarah Waters Quotes

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

Sarah Waters

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
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• Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
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• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
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  • Thinking

• I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Eye

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Seriously

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
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• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • History

• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
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• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Thinking
  • House
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• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
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• As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • Thinking
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• Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Up
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• Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Death
  • Society

• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

  

  James Agee
  • Good
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  • Luck

• The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Father

• I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Home
  • Word
  • Learned

• .. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Thinking
  • Mad
  • Longing