Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
Laura Marling -
If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.
Barack Obama -
Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.
Umera Ahmed -
A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'
Conan O'Brien -
It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller -
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
Ernest Hemingway
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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
Norman Vincent Peale -
The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.
Adolf Hitler -
Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.
John Milton -
Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
Scott Westerfeld -
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
Moliere
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
Stéphane Paut -
It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.
George Lee Butler -
The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs -
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Ziyi Zhang -
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein -
Conspicuous by his absence.
Tacitus