Edmond Jabes Quotes
I have the impression of moving in the shadow of syllables, in regions before secrets, where language cannot yet answer the call of thought, in swamps where you risk sinking with every breath.
Edmond Jabes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
Ed Miliband
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
Saint Ambrose
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon
Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
Rachel True
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
Frances McDormand
I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
Taylor Swift
Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.
Camille Paglia
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Walter Scott
He would milk the white man....The white man had more money than sense.
Anthony Burgess
'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
Kingsley Amis
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
Margaret Thatcher
