Wilfred Thesiger Quotes
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
Ike Barinholtz -
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
Victoria Osteen -
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
Hanya Yanagihara -
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
Ted Turner -
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
Patrick Warburton -
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
Vince Cable
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman -
Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
Cameron Dallas -
Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
M. Russell Ballard -
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
Aharon Appelfeld -
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Jack Roy -
And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
Norman Vincent Peale
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The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].
Vladimir Putin -
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple -
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling -
There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.
Robbie Williams Take That -
Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.
Sara Shepard -
For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
Patrick Lencioni
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The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
William Browne -
Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
Honore de Balzac -
Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?
Thomas Harris -
Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full
Wilfred Thesiger