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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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
Andre Derain
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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
