Edmund Crispin Quotes

Wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him.

Edmund Crispin

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• There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

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• One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

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• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

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  • Love
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• The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

  

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• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
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• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  

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• It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

  

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• Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

  

  Walter Scott
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• Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.

  

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• You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel.

  

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• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  

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• It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

  

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• No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

  

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  • Men
  • Women
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• Wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Effort
  • Artifice
  • Purgatory