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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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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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
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The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.
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The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
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Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.
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St. Ives is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.
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'It makes her rather alarming,' I said. 'Sincerity has that effect,' said Miss Marple.
