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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Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.
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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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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.
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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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I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
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I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.
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I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile.
