Virginia Woolf Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
Tadashi Yanai -
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips -
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David -
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Ted Nelson -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke -
I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
Larry Wilmore -
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy -
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
Walid Jumblatt -
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Sam Harris -
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
Captain Beefheart -
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
Faith Hill -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Samantha Smith -
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner -
I'm very proudly European. I love that we have stories to tell of a place where we come from and we can relate to.
Vicky Krieps -
The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
Adam Ulam -
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
Josh Malerman -
The way to write well is to live intensely.
Virginia Woolf