We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
KAPIL SIBAL We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some ...
NEIL STRAUSS Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolut...
JAMES LOVELOCK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&...
JOEL MADDEN It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up a...
DAVID LIMBAUGH The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
HUGO CHAVEZ It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL I have been told I have resigned; however, I'm telling you I have not resigned. Usually a guy knows ...
TOM MCGEE Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling ...
TOM BAKER You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt...
JANE RULE If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL And now since he has resigned, we never invite him (to organization events).
DIN SYAMSUDDIN Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and ...
JEANNE MOREAU Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm res...
ALEXANDER DUBCEK The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
MICHAEL KORDA We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what yo...
VICTORIA LEGRAND I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in g...
ROBERT KENNEDY What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.
RON SUSKIND In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these line...
PAUL RYAN I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ...
MIRANDA HART It is good that one guy resigned. But we don't want resignations. We want arrests. We want prosecuti...
AL SHARPTON Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life.
SUSAN MINOT All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
JEANNE MOREAU People are resigned to the fact you have to pay for it or bring it on.
ARLENE BLOSCH Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?
WILL FERRELL Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
EVAN HUNTER Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
JEFF BEZOS I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on...
MEHMET OZ Be content and resigned to God's will.
THOMAS STONEWALL JACKSON You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
THE WEEKND I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.
JAMES WOOLSEY In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
IRIS MURDOCH The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful becaus...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We boug...
HELEN ARNTZEN I think they're resigned to it, because that's the normal course.
HOWARD WU Yes, we have gotten a letter from him (Haynes) that he has resigned.
BRIAN BREESE People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty gi...
PADMA LAKSHMI I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the f...
TOM CONTI We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren&...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL People warned us that if we went to them whenever they cried and refused to spank them, we would har...
MIKE FARRELL Companies are resigned to the fact that Arthur Andersen is soon to be deceased.
JOHN COFFEE We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It s...
VASH YOUNG Geopolitical wise, it's just more of the same. People are resigned to the fact that we're going to w...
PETER BOOCKVAR At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON There's no reason people who work have to be resigned to situations and endure circumstances when we...
JOHN RENESCH Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a vi...
JOEL MADDEN The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invi...
JESSE OWENS Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY The fact of the matter is they pledged to lay down their arms when President Aristide resigned, and ...
JAMES FOLEY I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we d...
BOBBY KNIGHT Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't se...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary s...
ROSS MACDONALD I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.
SPIKE MILLIGAN It was kind of shocking, ... There were plans for him to come on campus for a particular event. When...
JOHN FOLEY Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady ...
BILLY GRAHAM When we went in to talk to him, myself and the deacons, he quit and resigned and walked out.
ARCHIE SEALE Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf...
GORE VIDAL What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have th...
JANINA GAVANKAR I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally,...
COLIN KAEPERNICK Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
JOHN KEBLE We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in...
KASSIE DEPAIVA We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilit...
MARLEE MATLIN Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of ...
PHILIP TREACY What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They...
CHUCK SCHUMER I'm resigned to the fact that I'm gonna be the person in shows that people hate and dislike ...
ERIC JOHNSON You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, ...
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BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE