Edmund Burke Quotes
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.Edmund Burke
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen -
I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
Sally Mann -
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama -
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
Jack Youngblood -
I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
Pat Conroy -
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
Abu Bakr -
I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
Taya Kyle -
Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
Sally Jewell -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben -
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Harold E. Varmus
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore -
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr -
My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
Rami Malek -
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman -
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
Abbie Cornish
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore -
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo -
I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
Bruno Tonioli -
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.
Michel Foucault -
My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.
Fiona Apple -
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke