Elizabeth Wordsworth Quotes
It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
Quotes to Explore
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
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When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.
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I've never done it, but I think if you do a Google search for 'People who will help me travel across the country to meet my online love,' I'm probably the only person that comes up.
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Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
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Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.
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It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
