Elinor Wylie Quotes
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well - we shall live very well.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
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I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
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There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
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Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
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When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well - we shall live very well.
