Vera Brittain Quotes
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.Vera Brittain
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis -
Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
Wang Jianlin -
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
Vance Joy -
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
Frances McDormand
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube -
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
Barney Ross -
You need to train your brain to be positive.
Nargis Fakhri -
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
Lady Gregory -
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Quincy Jones -
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke -
The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
Ian Lustick -
I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
Manolo Blahnik -
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
Nancy Gibbs
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
Adam Hamilton -
I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.
Rae Carson -
Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
Dana Perino -
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
Michel Foucault -
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Elisabeth Elliot -
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
Vera Brittain