Tanith Lee Quotes
I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.Tanith Lee
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul -
Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
Fidel Castro -
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai -
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
Val Guest -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones -
Stay calm and aggressive.
Gabrielle Reece -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison -
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan -
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
Warren Bennis -
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
Eavan Boland -
Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
Bill Pullman -
No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
C. S. Lewis -
In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.
Jason Isaacs -
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
Paul Theroux -
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
Alexandre Dumas -
I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
Tanith Lee