Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.Alphonse de Lamartine
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
Fatema Mernissi -
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
Bai Ling -
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius -
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Gary Oldman
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
Damien Hirst -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli -
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
Aaron Paul -
I'm an outsider.
Jack Levine -
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
Kate Moss -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
Zac Goldsmith -
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
April Gornik -
Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have found the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Kahlil Gibran -
I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.
Geoff Johns -
So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
Brian Wilson -
Silence is the winding-sheet of the past: it is sometimes impious, often dangerous to raise it. But even when it is raised piously and lovingly, the first moment is a cruel one.
Alphonse de Lamartine