Edward St Aubyn Quotes
He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.
Edward St Aubyn
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Ted Cruz
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
Confucius
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
W. Daniel Hillis
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
Jerome Charyn
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
Claude Shannon
He had brought nothing to read except The Tibetan Book of the Dead, hoping to find its exotic iconography ridiculous enough to purge any fantasies he might still cling to about consciousness continuing after death.
Edward St Aubyn
