Margaret Cavendish Quotes
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Quotes to Explore
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
