Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.Simone de Beauvoir
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster -
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond -
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
Gary Clark Jr.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
Edmund Hillary -
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi -
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
Laura Marling -
Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
Ugo Betti
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In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
Olivia Hussey -
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
Ursula Dubosarsky -
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus -
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells -
People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
Dan Lipinski
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
Candice Olson -
Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
Karen Mills -
Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
Karen Salmansohn -
I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
Magnus Scheving -
My signature jam is damson or quince, and it's called 'Kate's Sweet and Sticky'. Basically, I'm a domestic goddess.
Kate Moss -
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
Simone de Beauvoir