Patrick Ness Quotes
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.Patrick Ness
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
Taylor Schilling -
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
L.A. Reid -
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
Adam Peaty -
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling -
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry -
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
To survive is to win.
Zhang Yimou -
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand -
Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.
Gary Sheffield
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It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
Joan Collins -
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
Anatoli Boukreev -
Women are truly, truly awesome.
Emily Weiss -
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
Hedy Lamarr -
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
Patrick Ness