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.Winifred Holtby
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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.
Aaron Swartz -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston -
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.
Walter Smith
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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.
Vanessa Kerry -
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.
Garrett Hedlund -
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I only know what I read in the papers.
Pat Nixon -
A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
Barry McGuigan -
Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
Valentina Zelyaeva
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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.
Dan Savage -
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
Maggie Smith -
If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
Queen Latifah -
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
Nancy Pelosi -
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.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
Kahlil Gibran
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In the major institutions of education, government, science, and the arts, we are witnessing the imposition of a post-Christian view of life. It now dominates in motion pictures, television, and every other form of entertainment.
D. James Kennedy -
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
Keith Jarrett -
A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
Peter Temple -
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
Ana Castillo -
Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
E. L. James -
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.
Winifred Holtby