Winifred Holtby Quotes
Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Adam Clayton U2
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
Gail Porter
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
Pablo Sandoval
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
Yani Tseng
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
Kate Flannery
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
Walter Raleigh
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
Fernando Pessoa
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
Camille Paglia
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
Warren Farrell
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Sometimes, it just gets mentally tough, but at the end of the day, I'm playing golf for a living. And reaching out to a huge fan base and knowing people are following my progress and looking up to me means the world to me. So if all I have to do is some photo shoots and answer questions, that's nothing to me. That's part of my life.
Lexi Thompson
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The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff
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If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
G-Eazy
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Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
Alain de Lille
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Winifred Holtby