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Lucius Beebe
All I want is the
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
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Lucius Beebe
If anything is worth doing
If anything is worth doing it is worth doing in style, and on your own terms, and nobody's Goddamned else's!
37
Oscar Vandy-Connor
he is very awesome.
he is very awesome.
19
Lucius Beebe
New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant,
New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.
34
Lorenda Starfelt
Mom. Wife. Filmmaker. Dog lover.
Mom. Wife. Filmmaker. Dog lover. Happy. What else is there?
69
Ban Ki-moon
“The international community cannot accept
“The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.”
31
Sunny Joseph
Cinema Is Love 24 Times
Cinema Is Love 24 Times Per Second
45
Jean Paul
The only medicine that does
The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
134
Jean Paul
Passion makes the best observations
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
152
Jean Paul
Humankind's chief fault is that
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
128
Jean Paul
The timid are afraid before
The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
128
Jean Paul
Other exercises develop single powers
Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
146
Jean Paul
Cares are often more difficult
Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
146
Jean Paul
Memory is the only paradise
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
214
Jean Paul
Idleness is many gathered miseries
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
158
Jean Paul
No heroine can create a
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
169
Jean Paul
Without God there is for
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
155
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Solitude begets whimsies.
Solitude begets whimsies.
102
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Nobody can deny but religion
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
129
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
People commonly educate their children
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
102
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
A man that is ashamed
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
85
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
There is nothing can pay
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
76
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We are educated in the
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
96
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I wish you would moderate
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
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