Morris West Quotes
There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for the purpose of closer study.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
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I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
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I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
