Anthony Trollope Quotes
Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
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Bush has compiled a fiscal record of startling recklessness.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
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The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
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The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.
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We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.
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Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
