Thomas Hardy Quotes
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
Quotes to Explore
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.
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That's how it began. In those days, we had to lug around these enormous recorders and camera equipment and find a place to conceal them.
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If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.
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One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
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Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
