Thomas Hardy Quotes

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Thomas Hardy

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• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

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• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
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• I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • May
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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

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• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

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• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
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• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
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• The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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  • Friends
  • Success

• I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
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• You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

  

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• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
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• There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Against
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• I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

  

  Laura Benanti
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• It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

  

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• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • High
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• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

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  • Great
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• Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

  

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• Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• Two eyes are given for a reason. One eye to always look at the opportunity. The second eye to always keep looking at the challenges. Because if you don't balance both, it's very easy to get carried away one way or the other. And it's when you balance the two that you find the most sustainable model.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Opportunity
  • Eyes
  • Balance

• That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Who's Myrnin?" Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss." "You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Eyes
  • Crazy
  • Boss

• You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Eyes
  • Year
  • Curves