Samuel Richardson Quotes

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

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We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

Robert Reich

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We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

Matt Cain

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Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, 'Oh man, they need to feel better today.'

Andy Grammer

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I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Jean M. Auel

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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Meryl Streep

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I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

John T. Chambers

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There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.

Steve Mnuchin

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I'm supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don't have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

Trai Byers

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Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Lloyd Alexander

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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

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I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Don Henley

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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

Christopher Buckley

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