Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Walid Jumblatt -
I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
Karl Malone -
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale -
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Nate Silver -
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
Yousuf Karsh
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
Edgar Wright -
Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
Gail Carson Levine -
My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
Young Jeezy -
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
Magic Johnson -
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
Karen Horney
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
Vince Flynn -
Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
Talcott Parsons -
Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
Larry Niven -
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
the religious ISA (the system of the different churches),
Louis Althusser -
Windin' your way down on Baker Street,Light in your head and dead on your feet.Well another crazy day,You'll drink the night awayAnd forget about everything.This city desert makes you feel so cold.It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.And it's taking you so longTo find out you were wrong,When you thought it had everything.
Gerry Rafferty
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As yonder tower outstretches to the earthThe dark triangle of its shade aloneWhen the clear day is shining on its top;So, darkness in the pathway of man's lifeIs but the shadow of God's providence,By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon;And what is dark below is light in heaven.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott -
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
Jill Dando -
When you have a first half like that nine times out of 10 you're gonna have good lead. Guys are coming out with a sense of urgency the positive thing about that is that it's happening now.
Allen Iverson -
Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.
Tom Hayden -
Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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