Fanny Burney Quotes
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.Fanny Burney
Quotes to Explore
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
Lance Burton -
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Zach Anner -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
Harold H. Greene -
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies -
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
Dana Rohrabacher
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark -
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
Edgar Wright -
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
Rachel Kushner
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
Jack Nicklaus -
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young -
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot
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Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.
David Jeremiah -
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I've always been a big Western fan.
Dennis Haysbert -
You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
Fanny Burney