Arcangela Tarabotti Quotes
God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
Quotes to Explore
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
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I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light. “Raphael’s not the sharing kind.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
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God did not grant one and the same will, one and the same desire, one and the same motivation to each and every woman… He takes pleasure in creation’s variety
