Thomas Hardy Quotes
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
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Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.
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Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
