William Golding Quotes
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
Ira Sachs
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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.
Camilo Villegas
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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.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Earl Scruggs
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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.
Daisaku Ikeda
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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?
Nate Berkus
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell
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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.
Walter Kirn
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
Rachael Ray
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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.
Fat Joe
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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.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Jacob deGrom
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There are ideas within Buddhism that are so incredible as to render the dogma of the virgin birth plausible by comparison.
Sam Harris
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The more rewarding part of doing a solo record for me was having more control in the studio.
Darren Hayes Savage Garden
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
Fran Drescher
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Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.
Michael Vick
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Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
Lisa Madigan
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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.
William Golding