Basil King Quotes

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

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• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

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• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

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• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

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• The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

  

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• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

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• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

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• Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

  

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• Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

  

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• The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

  

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• So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

  

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• What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

  

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• Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

  

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• Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

  

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• Usually, it is not difficult to change from indoors to outdoors.

  

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• If I can't even be bothered to brush my hair, I don't think I should start getting face work... I think it would look a bit try-hard.

  

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• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

  

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• As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

  

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• I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

  

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• When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

  

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• Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

  

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• Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

  

  Basil King
  • Victory
  • Troubles
  • State Of Mind