Jane Austen Quotes
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
Jane Austen
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
Aaron Diehl
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I Boswell happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.'
Samuel Johnson
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I thought-To lose all this forever?And I hallucinated Aenea’s voice saying To lose all this forever is the essence of being human, my love.
Dan Simmons
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Working to spare animals the immense suffering they undergo does not diminish by one iota my determination to alleviate human misery. Needless suffering must be done away with wherever it is, in whatever form it takes. This is a war that has to be waged on all fronts, and it can be.
Matthieu Ricard
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I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.
Pico Iyer
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You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Denzel Washington
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
Willem de Kooning
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Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.
Henry Rollins
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
Jane Austen
