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adventure writing world
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them. Shane Smith
adventure people feminist
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons. Philip Pullman
adventure character quirky
SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure. Kevin J. Anderson
adventure wonderland care
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go. Lewis Carroll
adventure stories funny-travel
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. Joshua Slocum
adventure remarkable
I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become. Kandyse McClure
adventure opportunity challenges
The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives. Paul Kagame
adventure succeed life-adventure
The bold adventurer succeeds the best. Ovid
adventure funny-travel poet
The poet is a madman lost in adventure. Paul Verlaine
pride important cameras
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. Dorothea Lange
pride play guts
You've got to play with pride and guts. Lamar Odom
pride parent virtue
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. John Churton Collins
pride men self
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect. Eric Hoffer
pride soul tolerance
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
pride self dust
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.
pride next-week two
The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made. Enoch Powell
pride men thinking
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. James F. Cooper
pride people sorrow
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Bronte
rocks roll seas
Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain. P. Herbert
rocks doctrine tempest
Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest. Marcus Tullius Cicero
rocks musician sound
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. Marc Bolan
rocks elements pops
I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like. Marc Almond
rocks rock-and-roll parent
I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me. Kid Rock
rocks play rock-n-roll
I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.
rocks car rock-n-roll
Detroit: Cars and rock 'n' roll. Not a bad combo.
rocks hip-hop want
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
rocks dangerous
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. Mel Brooks