Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
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Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
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To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
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The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
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Let no man value at a little priceA virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spiritIs feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
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To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.
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No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
