Arthur Ransome Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
Karen Bender -
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Maajid Nawaz -
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer -
The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
Dana Boente -
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
Wellington Mara -
Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
Ted Deutch
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In politics, guts is all.
Barbara Castle -
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken -
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
Jack Vance -
We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
Edie Brickell -
Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Elbert Hubbard -
Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
Ashley Montagu -
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
Bertrand Russell -
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I don't think that I'm a pop star. On paper, I'm bad at being a pop star with the conventional idea people have.
Charli XCX -
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
Edward Livingston
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My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
Ariel Winter -
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
Denise Mina -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin -
A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
Arthur Ransome