Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Until I don’t lose, until I am not defeated such allegations will continue. People who have been trying to defeat me for the past 12 years have been using all their strength. They couldn't give me even a scratch. This is their ego problem.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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Type is your brand.
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An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
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I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
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May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
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It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
