Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
Cara Delevingne -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs -
Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig -
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress -
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
Felix Dennis -
It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
Fernando Pessoa -
As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.
Warren Farrell -
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
Walter Benjamin -
Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
Walter Benjamin
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
Larry Wall -
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
Kingsley Amis -
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald -
We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...
Arthur Miller -
Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
Benjamin Graham -
Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.
Matt Bomer
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell -
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
Isaac Newton -
I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
Ian Millar -
Not valuing wealth prevents theft.
Lao Tzu -
When we first entered the music business, we didn't know very much about recording. Then, after working with Mutt Lange, we thought we knew everything there was about the studio. But just as we were getting cocky, along came video and we had whole new set of rules and regulations to learn about - it was a totally alien form to us. After all, we were just kids off the streets of Sheffield, what did we know about television except how to turn one on?
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard.
Elisabeth Elliot