E. M. Forster Quotes
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.E. M. Forster
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
Larry Wilmore -
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler -
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark -
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak -
I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
Kate Hudson -
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney -
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht -
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang -
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty -
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell -
A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Nancy Johnson -
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
Babe Paley -
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman
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Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
David Charvet -
My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!'
Alessandra Torresani -
I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
Florentijn Hofman -
Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
Anatole France -
My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.
Chili Davis -
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster