Winifred Holtby Quotes
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away.
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If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
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I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.
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Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.
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This moment was the apotheosis of the postmodern era - the era of images and perceptions. Wind conditions were also favourable; within hours, Manhattan looked as though it had taken 10 megatons.
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One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.
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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
