Virginia Woolf Quotes
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
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Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
