Ben Okri
Related KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. DENIS HACHEY KILROY J. OLDSTER QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIANA WYNNE JONES NEIL GAIMAN PAULO COELHO Life is the gift, itself. And any other additions, are the blessings! FLOYD WILLIAMS POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II POPE JOHN PAUL II PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE
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I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulat... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. 
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... 
What is the Other?" they ask.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. 
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... 
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... 
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a... 
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... 
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... 
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... 
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... 
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.