Morris West Quotes
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I love working with women.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.
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Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
