Ely Culbertson Quotes

#1. It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

Daphne Du Maurier

#2. You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.

Katherine Webb

#3. Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired ...

Sara Teasdale

#5. bursts into his back just as he tries to bring his

Marko Kloos

#6. The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Gunnar Myrdal

#7. The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

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#8. We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

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#9. God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

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#10. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Roland Barthes

#11. If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

Martha Beck

#12. We moved 23 times before I was out of high school!

Brian Herbert

#13. The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy ... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space.

Dave Chappelle

#14. The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Ely Culbertson

#15. A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

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#16. Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Ely Culbertson