Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.Sebastian Faulks
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp -
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
Lara St. John
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien -
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
Ramana Maharshi -
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber -
I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
M. Night Shyamalan -
When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
Frances Beinecke -
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
Sabrina Carpenter -
You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
Barack Obama -
Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.
Pat Cadigan -
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
E. O. Wilson
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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
Lynn Barber -
The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.
R. A. Lafferty -
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
Dinesh D'Souza -
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.
Sebastian Faulks