Thomas Hardy Quotes

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Work
  • Value
  • Independent

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Money
  • Questions
  • View

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Learning

• I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

  

  Daphne Zuniga
  • Energy
  • Focus
  • Dating

• When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Worry

• I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Great
  • Why
  • Art

• Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People
  • Justice

• I always think I am going to do my best.

  

  Emily Watson

• I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Why
  • Home
  • Space

• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Job
  • Teacher

• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Culture
  • Role
  • Fantasy

• In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Books
  • Response
  • Spirit Of Man

• Offer a vibration that matches your desire rather than offering a vibration that keeps matching what-is.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Manifestation
  • Vibrations

• All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Power
  • Political

• Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Mean
  • Wedding
  • Bride