William H. Prescott Quotes
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler -
The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
Gary Lineker -
Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
Hal David -
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
Tamara Tunie -
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer -
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen -
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie -
The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
J. D. Vance
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Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.
Ha-Joon Chang -
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
Jack McDevitt -
I never thought of runningMy feet just led the way
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
Joe Sacco -
My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
Emily Weiss -
My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
Eric Reed Boucher
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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
Plutarch -
For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
Taya Kyle -
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Wally Lamb -
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.
Terry Eagleton -
The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
William H. Prescott