William Golding Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages, and people have parents.
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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
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It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
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Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.
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When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
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I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'
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SK Group will work to be reborn as a group embraced by the public.
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I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
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The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.
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I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.
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In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.
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I'm a lanky girl, naturally.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.
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I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful.
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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Crushed wing. Crying, in a pitch almost too high for Patricia to hear. She looked into the sparrow’s eye, enveloped by a dark stripe, and she saw its fear. Not just fear, but also misery - as if this bird knew it would die
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We're not savages. We're English.
