Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
How can a gang of pompous little men so quickly destroy the democratic institutions of a great country?!” cried Wolfgang, pounding on the table in frustration, making the chess pieces topple.Edith Hahn Beer
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Dan Rather -
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
Rachel Sklar -
I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
Vernon Wells -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith -
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field -
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
Harri Holkeri -
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson -
It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
Maisie Williams -
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Daisy Bates -
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
Barbara Steele -
No agency is better than its account executives.
Samuel Goldwyn -
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis -
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
James Randi -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
David Duchovny -
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
Bobby Sands -
How can a gang of pompous little men so quickly destroy the democratic institutions of a great country?!” cried Wolfgang, pounding on the table in frustration, making the chess pieces topple.
Edith Hahn Beer