Kingsley Amis Quotes
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
Sam Kinison -
No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
Bart Stupak -
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West -
I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
Adele -
It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.
Ed Whitfield -
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
Han Suyin
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
W. S. Merwin -
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
Nan Fairbrother -
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
Buzz Aldrin -
The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.
Lorenzo Snow -
Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
Brian Tracy -
The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.
Amy Poehler
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In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!
I. L. Peretz -
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
Hugh MacDiarmid -
Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
Oswald Chambers -
More always means worse.
Kingsley Amis