Beatrice Webb Quotes
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.Beatrice Webb
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
Edan Lepucki -
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
Walead Beshty
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
Orlando Bloom -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk -
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
Kate Williams
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
Garrett Hedlund -
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
Ira Sachs -
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
Victoria Jackson -
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
Cara Delevingne -
Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth
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I thought the musical aspect of 'Freak Dance' was a good contrast to how dancers always try to come off as really tough in those movies - they're trying to literally come off as gangs like as if the Crips and the Bloods are also dancing in addition or instead of fighting with guns and knives and stuff.
Matt Besser -
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner -
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam -
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy -
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb