Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
Quotes to Explore
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Cancer is always funny.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
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I saw Baby Spice and insisted on talking to her. I tapped her on the shoulder and stood there like a lemon. I wanted to tell her how brilliant she was. Instead I said something like, 'Great woman!' It wasn't my finest moment.
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
