Monica Ali Quotes
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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Common sense is not too common.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
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The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
