Anthony Trollope Quotes
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
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I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
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It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
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It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.
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When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
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I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
