Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
