Anna Akhmatova Quotes
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song - This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.Anna Akhmatova
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
Dalai Lama -
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
L'Wren Scott -
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
Samantha Fox -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
Kara Lindsay -
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
Mandy Patinkin -
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
Carlos Slim -
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom -
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
Sam Smith -
I want to make this world perfect.
Malala Yousafzai -
McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
Becky Lynch -
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
Ike Skelton -
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
Aaron Stanford -
Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
Ian Hacking
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Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
Candice Olson -
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
Kahlil Gibran -
I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.
Erica Durance -
Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.
Jeremih Felton -
Billy Paul's song is hard to beat. I made it my own with a couple of little things, but I wasn't really going to fool with his thing. I ain't crazy.
Lamont Dozier -
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song - This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
Anna Akhmatova