Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
When the country was new, homes, like dresses, were constructed more for wearing qualities than beauty.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.
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We understand what President Trump means when he talks about taking the country back. He does not see America as a country of people from diverse backgrounds united around values of freedom and respect. In his 'American carnage' version of our country, immigrants and refugees are a threat.
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When the country was new, homes, like dresses, were constructed more for wearing qualities than beauty.
