E. M. Forster Quotes

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E. M. Forster

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• Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

  

  Sam Raimi
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• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
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• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
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• I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • People
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• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
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• Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

  

  Adam Ferguson
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  • Animal
  • Capacity

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
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• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
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• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
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• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
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• At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
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• In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • Up
  • World
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• When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking