William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
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Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
