Winthrop Mackworth Praed Quotes
I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
Garrison Keillor
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I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.
Naomi Benaron
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Frances O'Connor
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I join a lot of others who say, as someone who is a first time candidate, you have to realize that words matter, and the things you say have a lot broader impact, and I join those who are thinking that we hope that now that Trump is the Republican nominee there's a shift toward a more thoughtful approach to how and what you communicate.
Bill Haslam
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If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.
Kimberly Elise
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I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.
Phil Knight
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I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
Robert James Ritchi
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Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
Elif Batuman
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Having been through breakups when you get back with the person thinking it's going to work the second time - it never does.
Jeff Baena
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What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.
Anthony Browne
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I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'
Pierce Brosnan
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It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.
E. O. Wilson
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I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.
Mike Vallely
Black Flag
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
Aldo Leopold
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
William H. Macy
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I think while zealots fast and frown,
And fight for two or seven,
That there are fifty roads to town,
And rather more to Heaven.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed