Richard Whately Quotes
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Tacitus -
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Baz Luhrmann -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Victor Hugo -
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
Langston Hughes -
There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara -
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
Edsger Dijkstra -
The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
Jasper Fforde -
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn -
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.
Scott Westerfeld -
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
Gary Shteyngart -
There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
Richard MacDonald -
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately