Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.Vladimir Nabokov
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
Jack Lowden -
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken -
I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
Wayne Dyer -
I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
Jackee Harry
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
Edward Teller -
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
Jane Green -
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
Lorde -
It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.
Alexander Lowen -
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Madame Roland
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It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
Kim Young-sam -
This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.
J. M. Roberts -
One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.
Anton Chekhov -
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
Vladimir Nabokov