Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
... without it love, without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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Do all things with love.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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I love penguins.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
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The people taking care of our children and our parents, they deserve a good wage, good benefits, and a secure retirement. And, it’s crucial that every American have access to the education and skills they need to get the jobs of the future. So we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone.
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
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I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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... without it love, without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.
