Alan Paton Quotes
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.Alan Paton
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
Carine Roitfeld -
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Nancy Reagan -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
Tadanobu Asano -
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
Haile Selassie -
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
Nancy Pelosi -
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
Ed Pastor -
I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
Karl Schroeder -
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
J. Edgar Hoover -
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett -
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
Halima Aden -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Jim Lovell -
I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.
Taliesin -
The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.
Margaret Thatcher -
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
Vance Havner -
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan Paton