Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Quotes to Explore
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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I don't do ski racing to be famous.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
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I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
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Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.
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Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
