Eleanor Bron Quotes
The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
Eleanor Bron
Quotes to Explore
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Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,
Rachel Caine
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I think they've really been worn down through the course of this game. It's been a terrific batting performance from Ricky, sensational in both innings.
B. R. Hayden
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So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
E. O. Wilson
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
Allen Tate
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August Strindberg
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But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
Bono
U2
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A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.
Joe Bonamassa
Black Country Communion
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There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.
Sherman Alexie
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The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.
Elizabeth Holtzman
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But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
Thomas Hobbes
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
Sharon Creech
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Marcel Proust
