M. Carey Thomas Quotes
I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.M. Carey Thomas
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
Najib Razak -
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
Kate Moss -
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins -
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro -
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
Ram Kapoor -
Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
Park Bo-gum -
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
Daniel Craig -
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
Katha Pollitt -
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Irving Thalberg
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey -
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
Xenophon -
I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt -
In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
Ted Deutch -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson -
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
John Wesley Powell -
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Mahavira -
For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.
Gene Saks -
I save all my problems for my mother.
Chloe Sevigny -
I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.
M. Carey Thomas