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Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant…
— Vera Nazarian
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It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like,…
— Carol Rifka Brunt
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I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
— Michael Scott
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I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career…
— James Corden
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The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing.…
— Billie Holiday
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But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.
— Ruta Sepetys
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I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push…
— Nicole Kidman
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I watch reality TV , but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immersed in that culture in what's…
— Dhani Jones
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Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of…
— Criss Jami
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Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine…
— Criss Jami
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write…
— Charles de Lint
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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden…
— Honore de Balzac
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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then…
— C.S. Lewis
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A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again,…
— C.S. Lewis
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I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did…
— Andy Rooney
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in…
— William Hazlitt
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
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If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say…
— John Dryden
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A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes…
— Alfred Austin
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Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.
— Julie Klausner
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