William Golding Quotes
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
Patrick Lencioni -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
Malcolm McDowell -
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson -
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry -
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
Damien Hirst -
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen -
The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
Victoria Moran -
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang -
Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
Taylor Sheridan -
It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
Eden Hazard
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
Cameron Crowe -
I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
Barry Larkin -
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
Sam Shepard -
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau Willimon -
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Laura Dern -
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Walter Isaacson
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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
David Antin -
A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
Andrew Hudgins -
The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.
Charles Ruff -
To act is to rest.
Fernando Pessoa -
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
William Cowper -
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding