E. M. Forster Quotes
This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
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To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.
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A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
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Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.
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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.
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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
