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Aldous Huxley Quotes

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

Topics

Life Nature People Consistency Dead

Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.

Nature Freedom Experience Problems

I'm a woman designing for women, and there are so many layers to that. On the one hand, it brings an effortlessness, but it also means that I think and overthink every detail, whether it's physical or mental or even - in some sense - spiritual.

Stella McCartney

Women Woman Spiritual Detail Think

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

Life Live Loneliness People Society

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Attention Honest Coping Well Very

I used to look at the outfits that I wore when I was 11, and I was like, 'That's really ugly.' I mean, I just thought I was the coolest kid ever and actually wasn't.

Ugly Thought Look Mean Kid Used

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

Joseph R. McCarthy

People Party Hand Policy Communist

I have taken my outside-the-box, innovative, and sometimes unorthodox approach to Congress.

Congress Sometimes Approach Taken

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Words Step Me Writing Start Process

I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

Christopher Plummer

Great Job People You Pictures Done

Any competitor would be frustrated in that moment... but it certainly made sense what Coach Kubiak did for the playoff run. I got replaced by Peyton Manning... I think we all know who is going to play in the game.

Moment Game Think Play Know Run

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Feet Active Him Two Single Without

At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.

Yourself Cricket New Skills Hard

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