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Aspirations Quote by Iain Pears

“Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.” quote by Iain Pears — Download Open image

““Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.””

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“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have…

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“The next day was a dream of such perfection that I have never approached the like again. It was, of course, all illusion, but I like to think of it still in isolation from what came after,as a moment of bliss, one of those days when on is no longer oneself, but becomes bigger, and better, able to overcome the…

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

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I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.

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“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an…

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When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late…

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he…

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“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles…

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In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly.…

“Aunt Gertie could not tell the difference between 1928 and now. Uncle Joseph was dead and alive. In other words, she grasped the essential non-existence of time. Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. It is the only way that such an inadequate instrument as our brain can function. It cannot deal with the complexity…

“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.”

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“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. “You…

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For 20 years, I've been running an institute in Chennai where serious dancers from Kerala come with aspirations of becoming professional dancers.

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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm…

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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

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“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be…

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When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

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I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption…

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As an actor, you always have aspirations to play different roles.

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“Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning”

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“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant…

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The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

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