Rebecca West Quotes

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Rebecca West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

John Williams

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The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Jean Baudrillard

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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

Douglas McGrath

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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Augustus Hare

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Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

Petra Collins

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Just because people are calling you skinny doesn't mean I'm like, 'Yay!' No! You're telling me I don't look right. This is me, this is my body - I have accepted it.

Shenae Grimes

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Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Sellapan Ramanathan

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The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

Scott McClellan

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As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

Nicole Polizzi

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Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Lincoln Steffens

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Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

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