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Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Dinah Maria Mulock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 20, 1826 - October 12, 1887

Topics

Small Poverty House Comfort Own How

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Robert M. Pirsig

Technology You Run Will Chase

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

Mercy Otis Warren

Nature Man Mistake Courtesy More

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Life Style Believe My Life Informed

At the end of your career, what you will keep in your head is the memory of winning trophies - Premier League, Champions League. Those are the only things you remember.

Memory Winning End Remember You

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Strategy Logic Haters You Lose Turn

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

Good End You Know Out Going

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Mary Ellen Chase

Life Suffering Understanding You

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

Life Art Me Think Learn Moments

I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

Life Great Myself Commitment I Am

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean de la Bruyere

Life Work World You Fame Trade

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

Go Favorite Far Peter As Far As

Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.

Moment World Universe You Place See

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