Olive Schreiner Quotes
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.Olive Schreiner
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
R. Kelly -
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang -
If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
Eddie Redmayne -
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher -
I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
Barry Eisler -
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
Marat Safin -
I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
Rachel Bilson -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
J. P. Donleavy -
When I got famous, all of a sudden guys wouldn't look at me. Period. So I felt a little sad, a little frustrated. Like, What's going on here? I've never been prettier in my life and I'm so cool and successful.
Meghan Trainor -
There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
J. J. Watt -
When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
Zendaya -
It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.
Angelina Jolie -
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
Olive Schreiner