Tanith Lee Quotes
This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone.Tanith Lee
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
Walter Jon Williams -
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
Earl Hines -
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers -
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne Dyer -
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable -
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
Fedor Emelianenko -
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
Ma Jun -
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Walter Winchell -
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Larry Page -
I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
Samuel Larsen
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina -
I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
Yvonne De Carlo -
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
Sai Baba -
When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
Hannah Simone -
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
Hanoi Hannah -
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
Tananarive Due
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Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.
Baruch Spinoza -
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
Eddie Redmayne -
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Louisa May Alcott -
I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
Dambisa Moyo -
This was the custom of the tribes, and perhaps, in the fogs of their pasts, the scheme had had its reasons. Yet like many of their ways, only the peel remained, the fruit was long gone.
Tanith Lee