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.William Dean Howells
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Garth Nix -
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette -
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.
Yair Lapid -
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Ziyi Zhang -
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams
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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.
Wayne McGregor -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
Orson Welles
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
Sam Graves -
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.
Laura Marling -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill -
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.
Vanity -
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales
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In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
Chuck Hogan -
It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.
Leo Strauss -
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
U.G. Krishnamurti -
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
Corrie Ten Boom -
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells