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James Hilton Quotes

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

James Hilton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 9, 1900 - December 20, 1954

Topics

Time Value Think Price Matters More

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

Jesse Jackson

Life Focus I Am Moving Control You

I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran off and left me, and as darkness hurried in, I suddenly realised how far from home I was.

John Burnside

Home Darkness Childhood Me Walking

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

John Ashcroft

Culture America Prevention Focused

In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you have in common is you're all gay, but then you start to realise how different your experiences actually are.

Andrew Haigh

People Start You Early Gay Meet

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Robert Lanza

Universe Biology Train Will Role

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

Jeff Zucker

Brand News Will Never First Equity

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

Michael C. Hall

Think Talking Messy Mean Mess Like

'The Secret Agent' remains the most brilliant novelistic study of terrorism as viewed from the blood-spattered outside. But 'Under Western Eyes' dares to leap inside - not only into the terrorist mind, but also into the troubled zone that divides West from East, 'the autocracy in mystic vestments.'

Tom Reiss

Eyes Mind Terrorism Brilliant Leap

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

Childhood Small Small Town Optimist

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

Lizzie Armitstead

Training Thought I Can Never Maybe

I know what it feels like to be an outsider.

Judith Light

Know Outsider Like Feels

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

Josh Homme

Music Age Humble Yourself You Stone