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J. B. Priestley Quotes

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

J. B. Priestley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1894 - August 14, 1984

Topics

Children School Fashion Rise Heaven

I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that.

Jesse Ball

Myself Lie People Me Think Someone

Jon Tester no longer can say that he supports the principles and values of the people of Montana.

Matt Rosendale

People Values Say Principles Montana

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Anish Kapoor

Red Colour Up Things Level Some

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

Ron Chernow

Blessed Existence Grant Felt Porter

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

Michelle Alexander

Children Way System Got Our Prisons

Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity.

Jason Chaffetz

Freedom Path Year Back Country Will

I think it's really exciting for me to see Brandi branch out. Because when you look her up and see her pictures online and see that she was this bikini model, it doesn't tell you that she's got a degree from the University of Michigan or that she attended the master's program and the University of Miami.

Cody Rhodes

Me Think Miami You Look Pictures

Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!

Aretha Franklin

Body Head Big Big Head Weight Who

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

Pierfrancesco Favino

Positive Hero Value Me Negative You

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

Sutton Foster

Growing Up You Dressed Growing Pants

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

Susan Orlean

Life Dog Better Interesting More

The reason that Islamist militants can assert that jihad is necessary against the perceived enemies of Islam is that there is sufficient ammunition in the Quran to buttress their beliefs. The same could also, of course, be said for the Old Testament, which is full of scenes of violent death visited on the enemies of God.

Peter Bergen

God Death Said Islam Reason Enemies