Wilkie Collins Quotes

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Wilkie Collins

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Business
  • Body
  • Negative

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Passion

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I'm a man without a corporation.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Man
  • Without
  • Corporation

• I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Score
  • Shoot
  • He

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • People
  • Trying
  • War

• I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Poverty
  • Circumstances
  • Came

• In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Want
  • Color

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Light

• No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Affection

• Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Everyone
  • Reporter

• You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Wonder

• The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

  

  Wilkie Collins
  • Books
  • Masters
  • Generous