Edmond Jabes Quotes
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs -
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde -
The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
Sally Yates -
The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
Eden Robinson -
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
Zig Ziglar -
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
Zubin Mehta -
There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.
Federica Mogherini -
I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
Natalie du Toit
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
Wanda Jackson -
It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn’t be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton -
The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.
Sarah Waters -
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".
Bernard-Henri Levy -
It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
Ma Long -
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
Albert Einstein