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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I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have had such varied careers. They have never stopped working, and they are as great today as they ever were.
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I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.
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I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.
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Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.
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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.
