Winifred Holtby Quotes
We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.Winifred Holtby
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle -
I was a normal American nerd.
Jack Herer -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
Sachin Tendulkar -
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
Samantha Power -
To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
Yancy Butler -
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
Yoko Ono -
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
Victoria Wood -
Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
Ted Yoho
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
Gail Porter -
Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
T. S. Eliot -
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Walt Whitman -
When you say your prayers try to understand
Jon Bon Jovi -
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
Matt Taibbi -
Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.
Leif Garrett
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be in show business!
Maria Canals Barrera -
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
Jacki Weaver -
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
Albert Einstein -
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
Martin Chemnitz -
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
Albert Einstein -
We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.
Winifred Holtby