Arthur Helps Quotes
Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγαςβέβηκεν.
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In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
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Put your choices in perspective.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
