Edward Thomas Quotes
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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Tread the track of life with utmost caution. But let this not deter you from taking giant leaps towards your goals. Excessive caution may reduce your speed to move ahead in life.
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Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.
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To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.
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It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.
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Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.
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That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.
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Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
