Michel Faber Quotes
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
Michel Faber
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
Gayle Forman
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
Gary McCord
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A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
Gary Lineker
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
Oriana Fallaci
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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
E. J. Hughes
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
Rita Mae Brown
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
Vincent Van Gogh
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Socrates
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There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?
Vladimir Putin
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
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Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.
Eric Clapton
Cream
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A dream is better than obligation.
Riyad Mahrez
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
Michel Faber
