Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?Alexandra David-Neel
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
Bassem Youssef -
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet -
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
Ovid -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono -
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull -
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Malcolm X -
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
Ian Mckellen -
It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
Camila Alves
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
Park Chung-hee -
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
Damian Lewis -
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Otis Blackwell -
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
Rand Paul
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For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
Elliott Abrams -
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.
Mark Haddon -
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
Oprah Winfrey -
Computers are stupid.
Pablo Picasso -
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
William Hazlitt -
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Alexandra David-Neel