Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
Funny is an attitude.
Flip Wilson -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
Pam Grier -
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
Harbhajan Singh
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Olivia Culpo -
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
Viggo Mortensen -
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
Laura Wade -
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
Sam Kinison -
The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.
Dan Chaon -
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey -
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
Paracelsus -
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland -
Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
Adam Cohen -
I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
R. D. Laing -
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
Caroline Corr
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You don't need most beauty products. They're an emotional purchase. That's why the conversations are really important. What choice do you have but to ask your customer what they want?
Emily Weiss -
I left the city to accomplish something. And by leaving the city and trying to accomplish something, I've been a terrible cousin, brother, son some days.
BJ the Chicago Kid -
I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
Lily Aldridge -
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Kate Millett -
I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
Mother Teresa -
The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
Thomas Carlyle