Anthony Trollope Quotes
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.Anthony Trollope
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard -
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
Ralph Peters -
If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
Pat Garrett -
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan -
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
Gary Wright -
Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.
Dan Jenkins -
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Rachel Sklar -
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
Edith Stein -
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
Tawakkol Karman
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
Pat Conroy -
I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Larry Hagman -
I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.
Jim Harrison -
The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.
Palmer Luckey -
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope