Carolyn Wells Quotes
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Everything is real on me.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.
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Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager lad Rush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad – But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad.
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Even my Mormon sister checks my rankings on Amazon.com.
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I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
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I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
