Vernon Lee Quotes
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.Vernon Lee
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
Larry King -
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
Harold Urey -
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
J. R. Smith -
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
Valerie Jarrett -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I have no trouble sleeping.
Dalai Lama -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
Carl Honore -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
Sam Hunt -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Honore de Balzac -
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
Gary Locke -
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
Abraham Lincoln -
I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.
Roy Keane -
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
Aaron Patzer -
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
Vernon Lee