Alan Paton Quotes

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Paton

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WorthYouAfricaSouth AfricaIssues

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Jill Scott

MotherHomePowerChildrenWoman

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

John Engler

GrowthDayOpportunitiesAmerica

My game was always about good defence.

Angelique Kerber

GoodGameAlwaysDefenceAbout

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

Andy Grove

LifePeopleMeDeadWriteYears

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Ambrose Bierce

OthersEverythingWhoAffairsTotal

When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents.

Tracy K. Smith

FatherMeUniverseMysteryBackHim

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Robert Duvall

WifeManSleepKingBattleDie

My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

Robyn Davidson

MemoriesMy OwnOutOwnBringAway

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

Mitch McConnell

PeopleThinkAmericanPartyWay

We must never lose our individuality.

Divyanka Tripathi

LoseIndividualityNeverMustOur

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

Christie Brinkley

EatingEndYouGoSometimesMovies

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

Sushant Singh Rajput

I AmBecauseLabelsBotheredWhether

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