Edith Wharton Quotes
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.Edith Wharton
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
Kate Brown -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein -
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
Hannibal Buress -
I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
Oscar Isaac -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
A. J. Buckley -
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
Vikram Chatwal -
I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar -
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell -
What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
H. R. McMaster
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
Irvine Welsh -
I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
Tamron Hall -
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Ovid -
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
Patrick Kavanagh -
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.
Barry Humphries
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You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
John Ruskin -
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini -
I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
Christa Päffgen -
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
Confucius -
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton