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Margaret Cavendish Quotes

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Margaret Cavendish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: 1623 - December 15, 1673

Topics

Pleasure Delight Decency Necessity

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Time War People Believe Direction

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Work Nature Mother Environmental Up

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Robert Gottlieb

Yourself Book You Sometimes Kind

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

Work Family Father Fishing Me Golf

Howard University shocked me into realizing how desperately sick the Negro could be, how he could be led into self-destruction, and how he would not realize that it was the society that had forced him into a great sickness.

Great Me Society Sick Sickness Him

I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.

Home Live New York World Proud Year

Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

People Connect Songs Scariest

Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

Patience Government People Action

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Time Myself Job Process Trying Same

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

Diplomacy Alignment Successful Means

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

Home Day King Me Song Thought

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

Hair Winning You Down Games Race

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