Anatole France Quotes
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
Gabrielle Reece -
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Gary Hamel -
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster -
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Walter Gropius -
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk -
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.
Garth Stein -
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett -
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling -
Our overriding interest throughout these past few years has been to encourage a government that legitimately reflects the will of the Egyptian people, and recognizes true democracy as requiring a respect for minority rights and the rule of law, freedom of speech and assembly, and a strong civil society.
Barack Obama -
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Yukio Mishima
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Elbert Hubbard -
Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren -
Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
Arthur Balfour -
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
Ambrose Bierce -
The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
Leonardo da Vinci -
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Bill Paxton
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He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.
Abbi Glines -
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
Margaret Mead -
There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
Alicia Keys -
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France