Karen Armstrong Quotes

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Karen Armstrong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 14, 1944

Topics

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When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

Jim Leyland

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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

Anatoly Karpov

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A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

Anita Shreve

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Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.

Jeff Van Gundy

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My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I'm not just coming and going. They know that I'm here to stay.

Shy Glizzy

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Married life is absolutely brilliant.

Ronnie Wood

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What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.

Michael Paterniti

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Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?

Julia Gillard

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I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.

Colonel Sanders

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I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.

Anne Enright

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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

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I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

William Hurt

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