Jane Austen Quotes
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
Calvin Johnson -
As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
Victoria Pendleton -
I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
Natalie Dormer -
I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
Frances McDormand -
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
Hari Kunzru -
I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
Maisie Williams -
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
Tadanobu Asano -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
Padgett Powell -
I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
Naftali Bennett
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
Flo Rida -
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
Beau Willimon -
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
Wendy Davis -
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa -
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.
Hanan Ashrawi -
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
Bartholomew Roberts -
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
Jane Austen