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 sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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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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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.
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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.
