Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes
Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Jack Nicklaus -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King -
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney -
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Edmund Hillary -
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
Adam Davidson -
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
Vin Scully -
Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
Fernando Botero -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
Rachel McAdams -
The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
Eddie Trunk -
I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
Gary Johnson
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson -
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
Yash Chopra -
Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
Pat Buchanan -
People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
Carl Paladino -
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift
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If I watch something, I want to be wondering what is going to happen next; I want to be engaged in a way that makes me ask questions and think about how I can relate myself to the characters and the issues that are there. But if it's just fluff, and everything is spelt out, I find it difficult to concentrate.
Ewen Bremner -
Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
Marianne Williamson -
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don't obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.
Danny Meyer -
Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE