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Joyce Cary Quotes

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: December 7, 1888 - March 29, 1957

Topics

Car Purpose Free Will Never Always

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Life Marriage Wife Rest Only Your

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Think Abortion Circumstances Right

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Experience Me Enough Kind Living

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Think Bad Dead Chivalry Got Just

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.

Power Political Three Bank Here BBC

I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.

Positive Fun Have Fun Think Place

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Mother Home College Me Church Way

If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Poverty You Look Know Hard Well

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.

Me Game Diamonds Fake Luxury Real

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

Roy Blount, Jr.

Words Think You Say Just Word

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

Life Live Rest Diet My Life Rabbit

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.

Michael Servetus

God Man Spirit Because Flesh He

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