Vernon Lee Quotes
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.Vernon Lee
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
Kaley Cuoco -
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard -
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
Abby Wambach -
Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A. R. Rahman
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Rafik Hariri -
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
Becky G -
I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
Kat Graham -
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
Rafael Nadal -
I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
Eric Lynn Wright -
'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
Rachel Sklar -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
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I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.
Max von Sydow -
Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't.
James McBride -
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
Otto Schily -
Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.
Oswald Chambers -
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
Brit Hume -
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
Vernon Lee