Evan S. Connell Quotes
He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.Evan S. Connell
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
Mandy Patinkin -
Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
Vincent Bugliosi -
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
Warren Christopher -
Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
Magic Johnson
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters -
It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
Sam Smith -
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
Malcolm Fraser -
My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani -
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
Rachel Cusk
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
P. G. Wodehouse -
One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religious faith.
Sam Harris -
One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
Hillary Clinton -
My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
Jennifer Lynch -
Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.
Dylan Penn -
I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.
Emma Rigby
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The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
Jostein Gaarder -
What Trump has done is tap into a deep-seated anxiety about where the country is headed. There is an anxiety that is real and sincere. Many people feel helpless.
Jeff Fortenberry -
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but because of its civil rights implications, too.
Luis Gutierrez -
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume -
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.
Oswald Chambers -
He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
Evan S. Connell