Cynthia Ozick Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I bought a girl roses once.
Cameron Dallas -
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
Val McDermid -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King -
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor -
It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
Dacre Montgomery
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance -
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton -
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
Kate Winslet
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo -
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler -
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Karen Thompson Walker -
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Camila Alves
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
Kara Swisher -
Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.
Dalai Lama -
A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.
Gail Honeyman -
Literature is for the sake of humanity.
Cynthia Ozick