Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
Ted Koppel -
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
Kate Reardon -
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono -
Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
Fernando Pessoa
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott -
The hour that followed was a long hour.
Cormac McCarthy -
Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
Aristotle -
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
Lydia Lunch -
We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
Ellen Burstyn
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
David Ogden Stiers -
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
Allen West -
3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.
Frank Miller -
My songs grow on people - like warts.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain -
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
John Howard
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
Mahershala Ali -
My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.
Lee Hyeon-seo -
I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart -
For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.
Saoirse Ronan -
Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
Sharon Stone -
Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
Gerard Manley Hopkins