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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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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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's so nice to run into people even now who - if I'm out, a couple of times a week, somebody comes up to me and says, 'I just loved you in '50 First Dates.' That movie is my favorite movie. I just watched it last night.' In my head, I'm always thinking, 'You're kidding me. I never watch anything twice.'
Amy Hill
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There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
Ben Zobrist
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
Pankaj Mishra
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: Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions?<BR>I'm still working on the Unicode mods.
Larry Wall
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I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.
Carlos Beruff
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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
