Caryll Houselander Quotes

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

Caryll Houselander

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• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Over
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• So if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the president does!

  

  Eminem
  • Mean
  • Lie
  • Drugs

• By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

  

  James Madison
  • Community
  • Passion

• Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • People
  • Reality
  • Rap

• I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Long
  • Energy

• The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • Women
  • Wife
  • Husband

• I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• I think everyone born in Oregon is an environmentalist by birth.

  

  Phil Knight

• A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Amazing

• In Austin, you work in anything that will pay and a lot of things that don't. The documentary filmmaker may also be a gaffer on a feature and producer for a commercial series and web host. Everyone just does a little bit of everything, and you have to because it's a secondary market.

  

  Keith Maitland
  • Work
  • May

• It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Real
  • Small
  • Powerful

• Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Dale Peck
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Powerful
  • Delay
  • Alleviate