Elizabeth Wein Quotes
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
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I earned my famous name.
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Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.
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There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
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I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.
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I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
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I looked for it heavy hydrogen, deuterium because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known the nuclear bomb ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.
