Christina Stead Quotes
They never asked any reasons for their parents’ fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotismsChristina Stead
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
Barton Gellman -
There is always pressure in football.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
Pat Travers -
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo -
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
Sam Riley -
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting -
Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
Zach Wamp -
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Daniel Craig -
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
Paloma Faith -
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
Adam Brody -
This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
Patrick Ewing -
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Haile Selassie -
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Ralph Merkle
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
Azim Premji -
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
David Rakoff -
I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.
Maura Tierney -
We have now armed to such an extent as the world has never before seen.
Adolf Hitler -
They never asked any reasons for their parents’ fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotisms
Christina Stead