Agatha Christie Quotes
'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
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The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
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Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.
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Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.
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There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
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'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.
