Guy Verhofstadt Quotes

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Guy Verhofstadt

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LifeStrengthGreatFireSafetyYou

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Joanna Lumley

GoodNightBookEndFriendsI Can

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

Robert Gottlieb

LifeGreatAnniversaryNew YorkCity

Though I had been born in Maryland, Montana was where I truly belonged.

Matt Rosendale

BornMontanaWhereBeenMaryland

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.

Michael Douglas

MistakesGrowLongYouImportant

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Subcomandante Marcos

WomenManEndPossibilitiesSheFew

Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.

Sloane Crosley

LifeDayI AmEyeJewelryEvery Day

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

Tom Ford

LifeBeautifulStrugglePeopleMe

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Michael Zaslow

HopeI AmMeImportantMoreHuman

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Lord Byron

ThinkingHellHelpHumanityDevils

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

LifePersonalityPeopleWorldArtist

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

Douglas Tompkins

UnderstandingBecomeMoreCapable

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

Chris Van Allsburg

ControlOverBooksMadeMuchVery

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