Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.
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The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.
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We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
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Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
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The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. [...] An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. [...] But change is important.
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... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
