Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
Warren Spector
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Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.
Walt Mossberg
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I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.
Cara Delevingne
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
Victoria Pendleton
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi Menuhin
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
Dana Brunetti
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
Jack Nance
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Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police.
Pat Buchanan
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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.
Taylor Swift
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We came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
Arlo Guthrie
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The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
Lauren Bacall
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.
Deepak Chopra
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I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
James Harden
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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John le Carre
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Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
