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

• We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Together

• 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

• The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Up
  • Home
  • Help

• I was a very strange child.

  

  Alessia Cara

• As a man and woman meet and love forthwith. Perhaps there are moments of awakening, Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep, As on an elevation, and behold The academies like structures in a mist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Moments
  • Sleep

• It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Moments
  • Loss

• Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.

  

  Carl W. Ackerman
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• I'm arrogant, but not so much that I'd irresponsibly save someone just to brag about it

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Arrogant
  • Brag

• We're just as frustrated as our customers-this is our livelihood too. Retailers have had stunning, unprecedented price increases in one day alone-some as much as 46 cents.

  

  Bob Bartlett
  • Alone
  • Price
  • Cents

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

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Moments
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