Walter Pater Quotes

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894

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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Jimmy Carter

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The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Jo Nesbo

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Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

Jerry Saltz

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Christopher Darden is a very passionate man. He wears his emotion on his sleeve.

Sterling K. Brown

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There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Rosalynn Carter

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On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

Mike Pence

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All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Dieter Rams

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Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.

Daymond John

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We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

Debbie Reynolds

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I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

Clarence Clemons

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You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

William Shatner

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