Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.Charles Caleb Colton
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
Nancy Willard -
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison -
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth -
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
Karen Black -
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose -
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr -
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Ulrich Beck -
Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
Raghuram Rajan -
A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
Malachy McCourt -
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
La India -
We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
Kate Clinton -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
Randy Harrison -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Quincy Jones -
The sculptural qualities of the image dim down the purely personal identity. (p. 369)
Marshall McLuhan -
I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.
D. L. Hughley -
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst -
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
David Whyte -
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Charles Caleb Colton