Anthony Powell Quotes

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000

Topics

ChildrenParentsDisappointmentEarly

I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

Joanna Going

I AmIrishItalianFrenchCanadian

I believe that business creates the jobs in this country and not government.

John Delaney

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There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

John Lanchester

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My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

John Wozniak

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I'm doing my sit-ups and watching CNBC. Suddenly, somebody starts talking about me on television... The business has gone into a weird zone of visibility. For those of us who have done it for a long time, it's strange.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

Trae Young

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I'm a quirky dude, man.

Tony Oller

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I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

Michael Shanks

ThinkHurtResultYouFeelingsSaid

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

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Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Christopher Hitchens

MeBetterDownPredictHardOut

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

Chris Matthews

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