Elizabeth Blair Lee Quotes
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.
Elizabeth Blair Lee
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
Zig Ziglar
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
Jack Ramsay
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
Washed Out
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
Ada Yonath
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I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
Olga Kurylenko
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
Vicente del Bosque
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I just want to stay professional.
Maddie Ziegler
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
Saint Augustine
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The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.
Antonio Villaraigosa
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When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.
William Butler Yeats
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The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.
Elizabeth Blair Lee
