Christina Stead Quotes

Henny “was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

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• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
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• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • War
  • Reading
  • Star

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Equal
  • Alike

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Drama

• I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Up
  • Smile
  • Jump

• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • You
  • Wife
  • Devil

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Believe
  • Body
  • Wagon

• I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • She

• The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Stop

• If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • New Things
  • Pacified

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Light
  • Violence
  • Sex

• Henny “was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Men
  • Against
  • Henny