Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.Elizabeth von Arnim
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
Kate O'Mara -
I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
Randy Houser -
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
I would definitely love to be a parent.
Kate Walsh
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
Camryn Manheim -
I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
Mandy Patinkin -
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
Natalia Makarova -
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
Yochai Benkler
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde -
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Tatyana Ali -
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin -
My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
Natalia Vodianova -
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
Benjamin Cardozo
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. Schwab -
On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12.
Andrea Mitchell -
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
Marquis de Lafayette -
It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
M. Russell Ballard -
After tea, when both Mrs Fisher and Lady Caroline had disappeared again—it was quite evident that nobody wanted her—she was more dejected than ever, overwhelmed by the discrepancy between the splendour outside her, the warm, teeming beauty and self-sufficiency of nature, and the blank emptiness of her heart.
Elizabeth von Arnim