Edmund Gosse Quotes

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

Edmund Gosse

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• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

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• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

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  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

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• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
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  • Words
  • Same

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Passion
  • Communication

• I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Like
  • Rather
  • Cardio

• Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

  

  B. B. King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Stop
  • Myself
  • Football

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
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• You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

  

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  • Time
  • Death
  • Pain

• Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Feel
  • Shoes
  • Pressure

• The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Done
  • Help

• I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.

  

  Deke Richards

• I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.

  

  Matt Lauer

• I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

  

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  • Running

• My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.

  

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  • Music
  • Father
  • Car

• My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Free

• Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

  

  John Battelle
  • Up

• Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

  

  Claire Danes
  • Good
  • Movie

• He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Good
  • Enemy

• He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Hope
  • Recognized
  • Holiness