E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

E. L. Konigsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013

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I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

Jim Doyle

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We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

John Joly

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There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.

John Howard

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One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

Robert McChesney

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I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Stephen Lang

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A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

Robert Casey

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I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Ruth Benedict

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My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Roz Savage

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At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Luke Bracey

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I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

Joshua Sasse

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Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Jason Alexander

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