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Zsa Zsa Gabor quote: "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back."
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor
The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things, To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? Padraic Pearse
Marcel Proust quote: "My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to..."
My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written, Marcel Proust
The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life. Joseph Addison
Stephen King quote: "How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?"
How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys? Stephen King
Laurence Olivier quote: "[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but..."
[the only acting advice he would give] What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying? Laurence Olivier
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put... Virginia Woolf
I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home. Mervyn Peake
Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It isalso a way of signaling the importance of another person byshowing your willingness to give that person your rarestresource: time. It is a way of conveying respect. Conversationreminds us that we are part of a greater whole, connected insome way that transcends duty or bloodline or commerce. Conversation can be many things, but it can never be useless. Scott Adams
A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it, adorn it, dress and undress it, give it lessons, scold it a little, put it to bed and sing it to sleep, pretend that the object is a living person - all the future of the woman resides in this. Dreaming and murmuring, tending, cossetting, sewing small garments, the child grows into girlhood, from girlhood into womanhood, from womanhood into wifehood, and the first baby is the... Victor Hugo
So yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him hitchhiking by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride. You know? It all depends on where you are. Neil Gaiman
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into whichhe has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records ofother people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness isthe only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts fordata, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called... Aldous Huxley
I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn’t ever give you more than you can handle, but I’m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much! Meg Cabot
Louisa May Alcott quote: "No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man..."
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles... Louisa May Alcott
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. Alan Moore

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