Michel Faber Quotes
Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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.
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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.
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
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A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
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I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
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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.
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
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For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.
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Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.
