Angelina Grimke Quotes
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.Angelina Grimke
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson -
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen -
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
Tariq Ali -
One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut -
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
Hamza Yusuf
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
Karen Mills -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps -
I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
Cameron Diaz -
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Candace Bushnell -
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Zosia Mamet -
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
Becky Lynch -
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
Dan Pink -
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller -
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
Dermot Mulroney -
Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Daseinsunmöglichkeit.
Martin Heidegger -
Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
John Kessel -
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimke