Thomas Hardy Quotes
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.Thomas Hardy
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
Pat Toomey -
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant -
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
Nancy Grace
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater -
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
Randeep Hooda -
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Walter Matthau -
I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
Gary Wolf -
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
Laura Trott -
Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
Manolo Blahnik -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
Honore de Balzac -
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
Anne Bronte -
The past is history, the future's a mystery.
James Toback -
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
Iris Apfel -
She was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.
Haruki Murakami -
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
Thomas Hardy