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But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld
The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is… — Danica McKellar
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making… — Kenny Smith
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of… — Octavius Winslow
I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an… — Janet Suzman
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith… — Fred Reinfeld
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only… — Brother Lawrence
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the… — Elif Safak
Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood. — Jeffrey Zaslow
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political,… — Willis Harman
Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty… — Edith Schaeffer
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced… — Noah Cicero
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in… — Unknown Author
So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it,… — Joel Hodgson
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for… — Mark Twain
What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing… — David Ebershoff
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to… — Len Wein
Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this way… — Bruno Bauer
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with… — Mike Rowe
Performers should realize they not only have to prepare themselves for concert purposes as far as memorizing their programs goes, but for the business of… — Leonard Rose
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin. — Peter Straughan
The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual… — Dean Spade

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