No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Virginia Woolf
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DAN MYERS NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer som...
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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO No need (to be) hybernating, you know,
KATIE JOHNSON At this moment, no (there is no need), but if the actions of Greenpeace or Sea Shepherd are escalate...
HIDEKI MORONUKI There's no question that China is a tremendous factor. But we need to take a thoughtful approach to ...
JAFAR KARIM Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no...
MUHAMMAD ALI There are no good users and no bad users. Anybody who uses the park causes damage we just need to...
CHARLIE MCCABE I need to be myselfI can't be no one else
OASIS Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."
Aristotle
BRUCE WAYNE SULLIVAN To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
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DOUG COOPER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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JASZ GILL The permits, no question, they need to be re-applied for.
BEN SHAW The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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THOMAS MERTON No need to teach an eagle to fly
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BILL HYMAN When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accep...
JOSHUA BELL There is no need to be excited or encouraged by the appeal.
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ANTOINE DENERIAZ Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it a failure? No. But we need to do much, much better.
CANDY OLSON But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
STEVE KING They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN No models are perfect but all models just need to be good enough to improve the decisions we make.
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ANITA BEATY Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.
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Vegans want no domestic
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O ANNA NIEMUS For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS It's our last chance.
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VIVEK WADHWA To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself
JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who know how to think need no teachers.
MAHATMA GANDHI No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER No, I need something to keep you two together.
JUSTINE NAKASE No, I don't need to see the design first,
KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. Al...
KANGANA RANAUT Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.
CATHY RINDNER TEMPELSMAN Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
COCO CHANEL No, but we need a better Texas for him.
JAMIE SHARP I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
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VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be subst...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locke...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secret...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Language is wine upon the lips.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One must love everything.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hea...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury y...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
VIRGINIA WOOLF