Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.

  

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• I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

  

  Walter Hagen
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• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• You can't be in love with a Google search.

  

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• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.

  

  Talia Balsam
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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
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• Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Good
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• Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.

  

  Owen Feltham
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• Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

  

  Majora Carter
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• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

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• I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

  

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• I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India.

  

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• Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

  

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• Anyone would think paintings were made like speculations on the stock market, out of the frictions of ambitious young people... ...it sharpens the mind, but clouds your judgement.

  

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• Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

  

  Andrew Lincoln

• At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.

  

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• There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

  

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• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  

  Russell Baker
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• A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'

  

  Zac Efron
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  • Mind
  • Interesting

• Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
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  • Thanksgiving
  • Prayers