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Jane Austen quote: "And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that..."
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner. Jane Austen
Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie. Henry James
Richard Brautigan quote: "My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted..."
My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. Richard Brautigan
The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work... Those read great works, on the other hand will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of there life. C. S. Lewis
If American women increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. Coretta Scott King
On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. Dean Koontz
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know. Ray Bradbury
My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p. m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. Robertson Davies
Philip Hone quote: "The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years."
The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years. Philip Hone
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. David Baldacci
I am a Christian - but sometimes I feel very removed from Christianity. The Jesus Christ that I believe in was the man who turned over the tables in the temple and threw the money-changers out - substitute T.V. evangelists if you like…why in the West, do we spend so much money on extending the arms race instead of wiping out malaria, which could be eradicated given ten minutes worth of the world's arm budget? To me, we are living in the most un-Christian times. When I see these racketeers,... Bono
Agatha Christie quote: "Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine..."
Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten. Agatha Christie
Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading--that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's? Annie Dillard
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant) Isaac Babel
My mind flashed back to the Cultural Revolution, when a group of Red Guards pulled our neighbor, Granny Li, out of the opera company’s dormitory block and ordered the rest of us to bring out our thermos flasks. We then had to stand and watch as the Red Guards poured ten flasks of boiling water over Granny Li’s head. Ma Jian

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