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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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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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.
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And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
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The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
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Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?
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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.
