Terry Waite Quotes

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Terry Waite

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 31, 1939

Topics

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I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

Andrew Yang

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Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Trevor Noah

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The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

Tom Weston-Jones

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The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

Ron Jaworski

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I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.

Lois Lerner

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My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.

Julia Gillard

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As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Bobby Wallace

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Plato

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There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

Mark Frost

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If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

Mark Knopfler

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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Martin Lewis Perl

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