Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I always have stress.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
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Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.
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Everything I loved became everything I've lost.
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For special occasions, I love pretty dresses - but nothing too frou-frou!
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I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.
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He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.
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This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
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On the third Friday of each month, I go to the Andy Griffith Museum. I get to meet hundreds of fans who stand in long lines for hours to meet me. Some months I don't feel too good and I think maybe I won't go, but then when I go and get to be there with so many wonderful people it always lifts my spirits and makes me feel better. I wouldn't stand in line for hours to meet me, but I'm so glad my fans do.
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How glad I am I need not hurry. What a waste of life, just getting and spending.
