Edmund Gosse Quotes
He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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In committed sex, in marriage, people don't feel the need to seduce or to build anticipation - - that's an effort they think they no longer need to do now that they have conquered their partner. If they're in the mood, their partner should be too.
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The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.
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I took a page from the playwright Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
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There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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He would calculate, by reference to prophecies in the Old and New Testament, the exact date of this event; the date would pass, without the expected Advent, and he would be more than disappointed,—he would be incensed. Then he would understand that he must have made some slight error in calculation, and the pleasures of anticipation would recommence.
