Tertullian Quotes
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.Tertullian
Quotes to Explore
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Samuel Gompers -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
Idina Menzel -
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
Gary Oldman -
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
Ed Oxenbould -
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter -
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
Barry Eisler -
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
Ted Nugent -
I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
Nargis Fakhri -
I remember a few years ago I was watching this astronaut from the space shuttle, talking about his experiences in space and talking about what earth looked like to him from above.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
Anthony Trollope -
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney -
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
Agnes Martin -
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
Leroy Chiao
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Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
Og Mandino -
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.
Socrates -
What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.
Clarence Clemons -
Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.
Alan Wilson -
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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