William Golding Quotes
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
Quotes to Explore
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
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I want to be a major force.
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A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
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We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
