Kingsley Amis Quotes
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid -
God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
Randy Owen -
You either know fashion or you don't.
Anna Wintour -
I come from straight theater.
Brian Baumgartner -
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.
Ayad Akhtar -
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.
Bret Stephens
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
R. C. Sproul -
I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
Patrick Ness -
I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
Angelina Jolie -
There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
T. D. Jakes -
Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
Elayne Boosler -
The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.
Gabriel Josipovici
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As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Marianne Williamson -
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.
Donald Miller -
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore -
I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
Muhammad Ali -
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
Billy Collins -
Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
Marianne Williamson
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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
Abraham Lincoln -
I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
Kingsley Amis