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F. H. Bradley Quotes

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: british
Birth: January 30, 1846 - September 18, 1924

Topics

Struggle Fly Better Temptation Force

When I escaped from China and came to Hong Kong, the contrast was that China was like hell and Hong Kong like heaven. Though I was very poor, I smelled the air of freedom and was full of hope for the future. That's the way I thought heaven is.

Future Hope Freedom Thought Hell

I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work for Jean Muir as her in-house model. Miss Muir - as she will always be to me - was interested in everything.

Work Me Questions Go Never She

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

Maurice Saatchi

Win Lead Competence Economic Tories

This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It's a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

Doing Farm Cow Back Now Washington

Immigrants are more fertile.

Immigrants More Fertile

If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.

Yourself You Want Seriously Try

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Nature Book Connection Cinema Movies

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

Commitment Words Loved Principal

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

Seeds Start Impossible Weird Body

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

Robbie Robertson

Hope Fishing Looking Guitar Search

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

Change Progress Mistake Strange

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

Happy Believe Direction Think Church

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