Claire Tomalin Quotes
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller -
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
Jackie Robinson -
I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
Adam Lambert -
I'd like to be more spontaneous.
Val McDermid
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
There are no ordinary moments.
Dan Millman -
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
Mac DeMarco -
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
Wendy Cope -
Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
Lars Feld -
A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Nancy Pelosi
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I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
P. G. Wodehouse -
She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep
Alice Meynell -
For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
Cormac McCarthy -
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Aldo Leopold -
When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.
Karen Civil -
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Jerry Saltz
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People who couldn't walk, they'd come in wheelchairs, and he'd make them walk. It's just the power of God. It wasn't my dad; it's what God had instructed my dad to do.
Daystar Peterson -
I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.
Andrew Whitworth -
He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur -
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic Johnson -
My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
Dickens was very practical and sensible.
Claire Tomalin