Edgar Guest Quotes
The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.
Edgar Guest
Quotes to Explore
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
Larry MacPhail
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
Maggie Hassan
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
Laura Chinchilla
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
Nate Berkus
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
Maelle Gavet
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
D. A. Pennebaker
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
Oscar Hijuelos
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The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.
Pauline Matthews
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
Antoine Predock
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
Warren Farrell
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I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
John Perkins
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The things are mighty few on earthThat wishes can attain.Whate'er we want of any worthWe've got to work to gain.
Edgar Guest
