Jane Austen Quotes
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.Jane Austen
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
G. Gordon Liddy -
Men always like what the ladies like.
Quavo Migos -
For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.
Dan Quinn -
Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.
Jack Vance -
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
Ellen Gilchrist -
We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.
Jay Garner
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It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley -
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
John Malkovich -
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.
Piper Perabo -
Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
Barack Obama
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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
Antoine Lavoisier -
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
Corrie Ten Boom -
And I simply decided to be happy again.
Zeenat Aman -
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
John Wilbanks -
There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.
Michael Ealy -
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Francis Arinze
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During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant -
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.
Jane Austen