Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
Elsie de Wolfe
Quotes to Explore
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Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.
R. A. Torrey
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Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.
Barack Obama
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
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Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
Charles Dickens
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I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.
Ben Richards
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.
Benjamin Carson
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In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
Paul Banks
Interpol
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I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything.
Francisco Goldman
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Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
Paul Eldridge
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Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say.
Edgar Allan Poe
