Margery Allingham Quotes

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Margery Allingham

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
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• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
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• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
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  • Beauty

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
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• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Power
  • House

• Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Single
  • Wisdom

• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Time
  • Bored

• The world is changing, and you have to keep up with the way the world is changing as well as your own expectations that you set for yourself or that your family might set you.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.

  

  Bernie Siegel
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  • May
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• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • People
  • Nature
  • Blessed