Archibald Alexander Quotes
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.Archibald Alexander
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
Salma Hayek -
I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
Kate Dickie -
There are no rebels in the cinema business.
Beatrice Dalle -
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway -
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Walter Salles -
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Walter Pater
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz -
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell -
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor -
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
Eben Alexander -
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
Malaika Arora Khan -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
P. Sathasivam -
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
T. S. Eliot -
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
Barack Obama -
I think recreations are a good thing if done right because it can be very dangerous also. If you do something which goes wrong, then people probably won't like it because they are attached to that old version of the song... So, recreations can be a little tricky.
Armaan Malik -
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
Kjell Magne Bondevik -
It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
Archibald Alexander