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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had… — John Hagee
We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past — Unknown Author
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of… — Seneca the Younger
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… — Alice Miller
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. — Mike Todd
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.… — Albert Schweitzer
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. — John D. Rockefeller
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and… — William Wordsworth
My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience.… — Emma Stone
My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me… — Emma Stone
There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're… — Hilary Duff
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best. — Emma Thompson
It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh. — Claire Danes
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded… — Madeleine L'Engle
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. — William Dean Howells
If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. — Robert Breault

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