By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing… — John Guare Copy Share Image
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The life of a non-Muslim to Muslim is worth as much as the life of a chicken is worth to you and… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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You are probably being taken for granted if you are no longer being asked to do what you used to be requested… — Rebecca Higgins Copy Share Image
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we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
That so much power over the U.S. nuclear arsenal is placed in the hands of one man - any man - bodes… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
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