E. M. Forster Quotes
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.
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People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
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You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
