Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
Nancy Lopez
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Rita Mae Brown
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
Emma Orczy
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
William Hazlitt
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. Boetcker
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn
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Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
William Shakespeare
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!
William Shakespeare
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
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To me the Muses truly gave An envied and a happy lot: E'en when I lie within the grave, I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
Sappho
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If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
Saul Griffith
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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Francis Marion Crawford
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A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.
Catharine Arnold
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I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.
Catherine Deneuve
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
M. King Hubbert
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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
John Milton
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Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.
Luke Rhinehart
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In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.
Nolan Gould
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I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.
Misty Copeland
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I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks
