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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.
Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.
China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.
I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.
If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it.
I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.
Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.
When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.
As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.
Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.
Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.