William Godwin Quotes
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
Janet Jackson -
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
Oswald Chambers -
I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.
Rachel Caine -
I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
Jack Straw
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We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.
B. R. Hayden -
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
Katharine Hepburn -
I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
Andrew Breitbart -
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Alan Paton -
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
Alison Louise Kennedy -
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura
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It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
Leonard Baskin -
Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.
Alicia Keys -
The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.
Hal Borland -
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland -
Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
T. C. Boyle -
Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.
Dakota Fanning
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Eun Gi has come back. The Eun Gi I am seeing now is not the Eun Gi I knew before. What is it that she remembers? And what is it that she forgot? What is it that she let go? And what is it that she's looking for? Even though Eun Gi has come back, I am still waiting for that kid. I won't get exhausted, won't get anxious, and won't get... impatient.
Song Joong-ki -
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse -
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin