Ahdaf Soueif Quotes
So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away.Ahdaf Soueif
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
Dak Prescott -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Nat King Cole -
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter -
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
Hans Frank -
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
T. Boone Pickens -
Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
Caitlin Moran -
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan -
I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
Carl Andre -
We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.
Paracelsus
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For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
Lorene Scafaria -
Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
Jeh Johnson -
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski -
The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
Ellen G. White -
Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
Joe Davis -
I love romantic comedies more than anything.
Kevin Kwan
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
Richard Thompson -
When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
Paget Brewster -
I'm a romantic at heart.
Tyler Farr -
There's not much we can do about it in the short run, and that's the reality.
Edward Lazear -
So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away.
Ahdaf Soueif