It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOTHe described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
ALICIA KEYS -
When you’re embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you’re young and you’re trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, “if I don’t write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!”
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it’s unrehearsed and clumsy!
BEVERLY L. KAYE -
You’re the only thing I want most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You cannot go where I walk.” -Dank “Death” Walker
ABBI GLINES -
Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she’s amazing.
NOEL GALLAGHER -
Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you’re sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
JULIA ROBERTS -
A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
AL JARREAU -
In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.
ALAN BARTH -
We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.
MARCO RUBIO -
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
RAND PAUL -
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.
STEVE PAVLINA -
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
MAX PLANCK -
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS -
He was my highest high and lowest low.
JUWAIRIYYAH OLGAR -
What if we are never the same after this. That’s the plan.
AMY TURN SHARP