Christina Stead Quotes

Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.

Christina Stead

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• Children
• Tales
• Vile
• Henny

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
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• Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

  

  Adam Clarke
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• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
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• In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Man
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  • Seem

• I just wrapped a new show for Amazon called 'Transparent.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • New
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• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
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• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Strong
  • You

• I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Stop
  • Tomorrow
  • Starting

• Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
  • Amazing
  • Usually

• A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • Great
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• In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  

  Libba Bray
  • Music
  • Important
  • Simple

• I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

  

  Maya Beiser
  • Music
  • Different
  • Explore

• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Time

• Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Time
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• I had no fashion sense when I started out.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Fashion

• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Birthday
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• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  

  Barber Conable
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized egg implanted in the womb, it would get around that problem. Millions of women who cannot have children would suddenly be able to.

  

  James D. Watson
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• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Looking Back

• 'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'

  

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  • Money
  • Interesting

• Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.

  

  Christina Stead
  • World
  • Children
  • Tales