"But I despised men who accepted their fate.……" — Dorothy Dunnett
"But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands."
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Dorothy Dunnett
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29 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett has 29 quotes on this site.
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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good…
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination.…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale…
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or…
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your…
— John Adams
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In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans,…
— Mario Batali
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
— Joe Biden
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm…
— Mary J. Blige
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
— Terry Bradshaw
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In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
— Jessica Alba
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