Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

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• Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Children
  • Business
  • Change

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Logical

• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Freedom
  • Property
  • Original

• After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Television

• It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, 'What should I write at the age of sixty-four,' but never, 'What should I write in 1940.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Important
  • Age

• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.

  

  Prince
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Evil

• I understand that people have aspirations, and everyone wants to play the lead role. But, I do believe that one must climb the ladder from the first step.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Believe

• When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald

• I was a very strange child.

  

  Alessia Cara

• Overall, I'm happy how 'Original Sin' has come together. It's an amalgam of all I've done at Marvel, mixing the gritty, violent 'Punisher Max' stuff with the zany, light-hearted 'Wolverine & The X-Men' work.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Work
  • Men
  • Done

• I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Beautiful
  • Famous

• ...you have the opportunity to free fall in this moment between birth and death, right through the hole of your fear, into the unthreatenable openess which is the source of your gifts. The superior man lives as this spontaneous sacrifice of love.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Death
  • Free

• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Killing

• Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

  

  John Burnside
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Eyes

• I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Sleep

• In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Support

• I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
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