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Herbert Read Quotes

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Herbert Read

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968

Topics

Care Take Care Sin Human Spirit Left

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Joanne Harris

Good Mother Age Job Fun Me

I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, like, what am I doing there? This is bizarre.

Megyn Kelly

Myself Cool Doing Vanity Said Lying

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

Tori Amos

Good Feel Mum

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.

Rob McClure

Responsible Irresponsible Financially

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

Mitt Romney

Know Like Vampires Any Personally

I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.

Liz Cheney

Life Relationship Health People Want

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

Joyce Brothers

Men Woman Wise Powerful Will Who

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

Jonah Hill

Work God Think Thinking Sometimes

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

Diahann Carroll

Hope Me Direction Think Behavior

But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

Christian Bale

Time Mind Sick Short Back Fast

For most people, Twitter is too hard to use.

Chris Sacca

People Hard Most Twitter Use Too

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

Chung Mong-joon

War Cold Nuclear Weapons Cold War