Vita Sackville-West Quotes
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.Vita Sackville-West
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
Daniel D. Palmer -
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
Pat Boone -
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
Rachel Perry -
I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe -
God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
Ziggy Marley
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
Jacki Weaver -
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Larry Page -
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci -
I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
La'Porsha Renae -
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner -
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
Iris DeMent -
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart -
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
Orlando Bloom -
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman -
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
William Westmoreland -
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
Rafael Correa -
'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'
Karl Schroeder -
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
Vita Sackville-West