Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes
Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
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All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.
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Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
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Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
