Beryl Markham Quotes
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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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.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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Me.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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Be lazy, go crazy.
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I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
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The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.
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Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.
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Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
