Thomas Becket Quotes

The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny on my head, and I chose to be driven out rather than to subscribe.

Thomas Becket

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 21, 1119 - December 29, 1170

Topics

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Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.

Jen Sincero

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You should definitely stay true to your own style.

Megan Mullally

StyleYouStay TrueTrueOwnStay

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

Robert Mankoff

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jeb Bush

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I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Jeff Duncan

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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Lisa Unger

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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.

Jason Schwartzman

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When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

Janine Shepherd

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