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• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Patience
  • Strength
  • Welcome

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Style
  • Curiosity

• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Cancer
  • Breast Cancer

• I'm an affectionate person.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Person
  • Affectionate

• I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Wish
  • Problem

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Tradition
  • Truthful

• I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Fight
  • Rights
  • Against

• Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Change
  • Green
  • Improvement

• I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Taken

• My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Dream
  • Own
  • Bed

• I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Powerful

• It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • High
  • Words
  • Government

• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Future

• If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • Purpose
  • Evil
  • Dangerous

• I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • True
  • Reading

• When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Chance
  • Interest
  • Succeed

• Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?

  

  Ken Thompson