Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes
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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
Dag Hammarskjold
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
Brian Tracy
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
Joanne Rowling
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You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.
Joanne Rowling
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
Quentin Crisp
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
Arthur Rimbaud
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.
Gabriel Iglesias
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
R. K. Milholland
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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.
Curtis Hanson
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
Susan Oliver
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The man opposite, divided between anger and relief at the stripping away of his defenses, his nerves jangling, was taken utterly aback by the extraordinary beauty of Hilary's eyes without their glasses, by their keen, straight glance, by the enveloping warmth of his utterly happy yet rather deprecating smile. The immense power of his goodwill, together with his personal humility, made a sudden unexpected appeal that got right under Malony's guard before he knew where he was. He wasn't out to do you good, this chap - he didn't think enough of himself for that - he was simply out to jog along beside you for a little, and pass the time of day, knowing you were down on your luck, and thinking a bit of companionship might not come amiss.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
Euripides
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Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
