Caroline Emelia Stephen Quotes
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.
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Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo' jockin' da bitches slappin da hoes
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It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.
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When Sir Michael Peat arrived from Buckingham Palace in 2002 to take up the job as Prince Charles's private secretary, he came with a clear agenda. His instructions from the Queen were to sever Charles's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles because it was a mess and was detracting from his work.
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
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Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
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After 'Peepshow,' I really don't know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
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True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
