Henry St. John Quotes
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.Henry St. John
Quotes to Explore
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
Pat Brown -
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
Orlando Bloom -
In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
Zygmunt Bauman -
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
Otto Preminger -
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
Hal Lindsey -
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh -
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
J. Michael Straczynski -
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown -
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Nancy Pelosi
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover -
When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
Ian Beattie -
The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
Confucius -
Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients continue to augment American industry without anyone quite knowing their makeup and possible toxicity. And that needs to change.
Suzy Shuster -
He wanted to live without distractions; he wanted to focus all the life-force he had left on this last book. But now it was hard to concentrate. There was something new in his life. There was the painful distraction of desire.
Brian Morton -
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
Henry St. John