Anthony Trollope Quotes

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

Anthony Trollope

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• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
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• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
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• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
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• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
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• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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  • Good
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• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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  • Children

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life. You must respect the fabric.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
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• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
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• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Mind
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  • Fear

• Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Kind
  • Mood
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• There's no way anyone in the world is having more fun than I am. I truly believe that.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • World
  • Believe
  • Fun

• We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Believe
  • Respect
  • Wisdom