Iain Banks Quotes
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
Venus Williams -
First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
Randy Houser -
There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
Wayne Dyer -
I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
Imelda May -
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Kate Chopin
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.
Jacky Ickx -
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash -
I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
Jacki Weaver -
I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
Rafael Cruz -
The European way is also the United Nations' way. And we believe in the U.N. because we believe in the same principles, in the same values, and our communities are built upon the same fundamental ideals.
Federica Mogherini
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Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
Karl Marx -
Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Khaled Hosseini -
All Russia is our orchard.
Anton Chekhov
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No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.
David Petraeus -
Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
James E. Faust -
Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.
Dove Cameron -
Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique.
Bruno Tonioli -
I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
Iain Banks