Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

The Help

If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.

Hygiène de l'assassin

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

George Mercer Dawson

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Jill Lepore

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

Mark Carwardine

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Mary Boykin Chesnut

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

Mehmet Oz

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Mehmet Oz

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

Nyogen Senzaki

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Ouida

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

Ouida

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada día, cuando termina el sueño, allí, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas...

Oliverio Girondo

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

Olli Jalonen

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

Patricia Duncker

There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

Prince Harry

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

Prince Harry

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Philip Hensher

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Phillip E. Johnson

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

Phil Klay

Les hommes sensibles préfèrent sortir le soir au matin, la nuit au jour, et la beauté des femmes mûres à celle des jeunes filles.

Paul Léautaud