Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.Leo Tolstoy
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving -
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
Carl Hiaasen -
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas -
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent -
I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
Octavia Spencer -
Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
Walker Stapleton
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi -
Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Sadie Jones -
I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
Victoria Azarenka -
I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
Madhuri Dixit -
I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
Daniel Cormier -
My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
Karyn Parsons
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
Pankaj Patel -
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. Rahman -
Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.
Hans Vestberg -
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Wayne Dyer -
Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
Carine Roitfeld -
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
Ada Yonath
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
Dale Murphy -
The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan -
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
Halle Berry -
While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.
John Linder -
All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.
Leo Tolstoy