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Whittaker Chambers Quotes

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1901 - July 9, 1961

Topics

Life Children Woman Man Pain Child

I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.

Joe Cornish

School Years Film Film School

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

Good God Man Young Young Man Vain

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

John Hurt

Me Think Wrong Know Important Nice

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

Angus Deaton

World Poverty Differences Bank Needs

I wish I could do an entire spa day.

Martina McBride

Day Wish I Wish Could Entire

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

Liu Yang

Confidence Women Space People Me

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Jared Diamond

Loss Human Invention Contact Faster

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

Jasmine Guinness

Family I Am People Me Worth Talk

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Jose Mujica

Failure People You Say Experiment

Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.

Deontay Wilder

Life Purpose Boxing True Found

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

Ariel Levy

Identity Two Jewish Arguing Sure

A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.

Winnie Byanyima

Education Relationship Finance Back