Betty Neels Quotes

He mopped her face and thought how beautiful she was -- hair in a glorious tangle, a pink nose and puffy eyes, and swathed in a shapeless dressing gown only fit for the dustbin. The thought struck him with some force that he had fallen in love at last -- that, indeed, he had been in love for some time.

Betty Neels

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • People
  • Science
  • Moving

• It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Effort
  • Basketball

• Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Forever

• I think that Shaq measures himself against a season. I've always given him credit for that. He knows what the end goal is, and he's got a tremendous amount of pride. He'll be there when the playoffs are going, and he's going to be probably at his peak at that time.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Pride
  • Season

• Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Mean
  • Fake
  • Eyebrows

• I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • I Think
  • Mexico
  • Tea Leaves

• Once you have two buyers, you can usually make the assumption that you have a limited downside risk.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Risk
  • Assumption
  • Limited

• Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Death
  • Vacation
  • Christians

• There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Way
  • Woman

• The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Community
  • Government
  • Mediocrity

• Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Reader
  • Sheep

• Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Justice
  • Social
  • Plus

• I think I'm holding on to a limb to keep from falling into a hole, but the limb turns out to be nothing but a twig, and the hole looks like the Grand Canyon.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Hole
  • Holding
  • Limb

• We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God...

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Image Of God

• You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

  

  Brandon Spikes
  • Force
  • Legs
  • Trenches

• The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Decision
  • Opinion
  • Force

• He mopped her face and thought how beautiful she was -- hair in a glorious tangle, a pink nose and puffy eyes, and swathed in a shapeless dressing gown only fit for the dustbin. The thought struck him with some force that he had fallen in love at last -- that, indeed, he had been in love for some time.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Force
  • Struck
  • Fallen In Love