Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
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  • Reading

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• 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
  • People
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• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
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• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
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• I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors.  It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.

  

  Jack Chick
  • People
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• They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • World
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• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
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• He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • King

• She was, fine as fuck I wanted to sex the ho up. She said 'let's hit the parking lot so I can sick your duck.'

  

  Outkast
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• You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
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  • Technology

• I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Long
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• Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • God
  • Power
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• It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Kind

• From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls

  

  Anthony Burgess

• I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Live
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• The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • God
  • Order
  • Custom