Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.
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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
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Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.
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We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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Everybody has their weaknesses.
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?
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But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
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It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.
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I follow 50 people on Instagram who are these humongous families, like five or six kids or whatever, and I just think it's adorable and so cute.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
