Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

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I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Jil Sander

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The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

Jessica St. Clair

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I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

Melissa Etheridge

I AmPoliticalBeingJustFoundWho

Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue to what is going on.

John Updike

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I was by no means a nun.

Christine McVie

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I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

Columba Bush

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'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.

Bonnie Langford

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I'm just overwhelmed with the fact that I had a signature shoe. It's actually 'my shoe.'

Allen Iverson

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Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Alice Walker

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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

William Shakespeare

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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Philip Emeagwali

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I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

Sebastian Pinera

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