Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
Barbara Kingsolver
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
Vagit Alekperov
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
Gallagher
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It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.
Mary Renault
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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.
Barack Obama
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
Rick Pitino
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The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
Napoleon Hill
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Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.
Marianne Williamson
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
Barbara Kingsolver
