Arthur Ransome Quotes
They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
Arthur Ransome
Quotes to Explore
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
Olympia Dukakis
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
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Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.
Martin Freeman
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I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
Kathleen Robertson
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Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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My homies hold me down, really. I talk to Baby, Jeezy, Rozay, Nicki, everybody, from jail. Just call once in a while and holla at people like, 'Yo what's up? What's life like out there?' for people to give me a report of what's going on.
Meek Mill
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How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. "Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?" Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away." Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.
Elizabeth Wein
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They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
Arthur Ransome