Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

Sebastian Faulks

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Support
  • Name
  • Solar

• I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Business
  • Kids

• History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • Together
  • History

• It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.

  

  Lord Byron
  • High
  • Sweet

• Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Sea
  • Waves

• Germany is, of course, my country.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Country

• On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • High
  • Moving
  • Missing

• For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Real
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Health

• If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

  

  Maxwell Anderson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • May

• I associate wisdom and grace with age.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

  

  David Mamet

• My idols are all older.

  

  Kelly Lynch

• Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Friends

• I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
  • Country

• I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Giving

• I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichéd situations.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Success

• Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

  

  Steve Allen
  • Reality
  • Humor
  • Unintended

• Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Heart
  • Delusion