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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Country is a very sleeping beast within us,

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Country
  • Beast
  • Sleeping

• It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Father
  • Pretty

• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Mobility was a factor, ... We thought that if (McMahon) got into trouble, he could gain some yards with his feet. ... He did a good job. I have not had a chance to talk to the coaches and the players about it so I am not going to say something here.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Good
  • Job
  • Chance

• Look, I can't go out with you, because... because... because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Looks
  • I Can
  • Lesbian

• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Development

• All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Women
  • Taken
  • Sweet

• The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Boat
  • General
  • Terrorists

• To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Girl

• The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Rose
  • Theory
  • Apple

• You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Trying
  • Stop
  • Hands

• With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Turns
  • Naked

• The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

  

  Peter Yarrow
  • Songs
  • Reach
  • Rhetoric

• When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

  

  Judy Collins
  • Inspiration
  • Return
  • Turns

• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Existence
  • Intelligence
  • Supreme

• And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Singing
  • Humans

• There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

  

  William Penn
  • Turns
  • Ill
  • Rhetoric