E. W. Howe Quotes

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E. W. Howe

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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

Watkin Tudor Jones
- Culture
- You
- Conservative
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men
- Society
- Born
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Saint Bernard
- Nature
- Death
- Humility
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

Natalie Dormer
- Important
- History
- Think
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

Valerie Plame
- You
- Stress
- Adapt
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

Pat Barker
- Me
- Husband
- Balance