Niall Williams Quotes
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.Niall Williams
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Umberto Eco -
People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
Yakov Smirnoff -
For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi -
People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
Halsey -
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
Zhang Xin
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson -
I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
A. S. Byatt -
Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction -
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
Oscar Wilde -
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night.
Mari Evans
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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama -
Everybody draws when they are little.
Keith Haring -
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
You're alive, you might as well be glad.
Neil Diamond -
Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.
Mother Teresa -
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
Charles Nodier
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It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.
Sy Montgomery -
You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.
Ray Bradbury -
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
Niall Williams