Aelred of Rievaulx Quotes
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
Quotes to Explore
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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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.
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I am the funniest woman that you've ever known. I am the dullest woman that you've ever known. I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone Who is as everything as I am sometimes.
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Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
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Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
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I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.
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I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.
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When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
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There is a great correlation between music and images.
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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
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That raven on yon left-hand oak(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)Bodes me no good.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Worms are the intestines of the earth.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
