Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant -
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
Quentin Blake -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole -
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga -
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Jack Dee
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Jack Lemmon -
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
Abraham Lincoln -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
Adam Peaty -
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Carlos Drummond de Andrade -
I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz -
There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
Naomi Watts -
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon
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The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
Frederick Pollock -
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.
Susanne Langer -
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.
Carl De Keyzer -
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
Virginia Woolf