Sarah Waters Quotes
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
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She's the quiet type who's into heavy metal.
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I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
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Life is a child moving counters in a game.
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There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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No scientist thinks in formula.
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I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
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Hinduism is not a codified religion.
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My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.
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I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
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I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
