Aelred of Rievaulx Quotes
Often affection precedes friendship, but it ought never to be followed unless it is led by reason, moderated by a sense of honor, and ruled by justice.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
Kangana Ranaut
Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
Kate Middleton
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
Vernon Howard
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
Edmund Barton
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
Naomi Wolf
Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!We think no Birds so happy as we!Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!We think so then, and we thought so still!
Edward Lear
The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
Ayelet Waldman
Quiet, the Unicorn,In contemplation stilled,With acceptance filled;Quiet, save for his horn;Alive in his horn;Horizontally,In captivity;Perpendicularly,Free.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
Jodi Kantor
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
Anna Katharine Green
I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.
Kelly Asbury
I'm really close to all of my family.
Paul Walker
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
Mark Shields