Jane Austen Quotes
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.Jane Austen
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
Vicente Fox -
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
Randy Harrison -
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume -
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
Vijay Mallya -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost -
I seemed to have been born reading.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
Nadia Comaneci -
I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
Rami Malek
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett -
I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
T. C. Boyle -
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare -
I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
Quentin Blake -
As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
Adam Cohen -
I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
Adam Driver
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Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
Ed Koch -
Pop music should be about young people.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
Gabrielle Zevin -
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane Austen